Yesterday, I did some quick birding at Olentangy Wetlands followed by
some birding at Antrim Park just a few miles upstream from the OSU
campus.       The wetlands did not have any rarities or warblers
present, just the common species, ditto for  Antrim Park. The common
species observed at Antrim,though, were a little more interesting,
with 2 male Common Mergansers and 1 male Horned Grebe present.   It
took a while to get a positive ID on the grebe, as it was ducking
under water quite often and resurfacing about 50 feet away from its
dive point.  It was still in its winter plumage.     An Eastern Wood
Peewee was calling this morning from its perch.


Earlier in the week while at a store, there was a documentary on one
of the big screen tv's about a 500+ strong school of dolphins pursuing
a just located school of mackerels. But the problem for the dolphins
was that a large flock of shearwaters had also located it as well.
Then it showed the shearwaters diving down once the dolphins had
forced the school of countless mackerel closer to the surface. It also
mentioned that the shearwaters can dive as deep as 60 meters to feast
on its prey. Just thought it was interesting.

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