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Bruce Simpson and Bill Kinkead joined me to do some birding in
south-central Ohio today. We covered areas in Ross and Pickaway Counties including Scioto
Trail State Forest, Stages Pond Nature Preserve, Pickaway Plains and several
nooks and crannies in between. We specialized in brown-eyed owls as we
scored with both a Barn Owl and a Barred Owl.
Scioto Trail State Forest was somewhat quiet as the employees are still busy
cleaning up the debris from the recent wind storms. We did find a few
decent birds there such as Red-shouldered Hawks, Brown Creepers, Eastern Towhees,
Eastern Phoebes and a Pileated Woodpecker that was calling but not coming out
to be seen.
At Pickaway Plains we observed many Horned Larks, a few Eastern Meadow
Larks, a pair of Hooded Mergansers, a female Northern Harrier and finally, much to
our surprise, a lone Snow Bunting in breeding plumage.
Stage’s Pond State Preserve provided most of the waterfowl we observed and
also a Ring-necked Pheasant, Rusty Blackbird and Barred Owl.
We had 51 species for the day:
Pied-Billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Northern Harrier
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ring-necked Pheasant
Killdeer
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
BARN OWL
Barred Owl
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker (heard calling but not seen)
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
American Crow
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
European Starling
Eastern Towhee
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
SNOW BUNTING
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
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