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Date: | Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:08:00 -0400 |
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This morning well before dawn, I met Mark Sabo, a local birder and
grouse and turkey hunter to search for Ruffed Grouse in Adams County
southeast of Peebles. We succeeded between 7:00 and 8:00 am, and in the
process, just as the sky started to lighten, we found Whip-poor-will
singing and answering Mark's whistle. I also found two Black and White
Warblers, an Ovenbird, which sang briefly and then shut up, and two
Louisiana Waterthrushes, an apparent pair on territory, Yellow-throated
Warbler and a Solitary Vireo, singing briefly. There was also American
Woodcock displaying and peenting at this location. It was a dreary
cloudy drizzly mourning. Mark found the grouse down the hill from us
below the crest of the hill and was drumming so softly that at first I
wasn't sure I was really hearing a grouse instead of my own heartbeat.
This location was near a relatively recent clear cut area.
It was a great spring morning in southern Ohio, even though the sun did
not shine.
Jay
Jay G. Lehman
Cincinnati, OH
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