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Tue, 7 Nov 2006 01:01:45 -0500
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Was in Port Clinton today (Monday Nov. 6) so I checked out a few spots in
the area, including East Harbor State Park.  The woods south of the
easternmost parking lot look as if they ought to hold lingering late
migrants -- looks like a warm microclimate there, next to the lake, with a
lot of green leaves still on the trees.  There were many passerines present
but the only notable thing was one Orange-crowned Warbler.  This would be a
notably late date compared to what's listed as normal in Peterjohn's The
Birds of Ohio ("the last fall migrants normally depart by October 20-25 with
a few stragglers into November").  However, Larry Rosche's book on birds of
the Cleveland region shows the species as uncommon through the end of
October, rare through November, and then occasional in December.  The latter
sounds more like what I'd expect, since Orange-crowns are relatively hardy
warblers that migrate late in fall and winter farther north than most.  The
scarcity of records after October probably reflects the fact that this is a
low-density migrant in the first place, hence present in only very small
numbers after the "peak" of the fall flight.

In the same general area I had at least half a dozen Fox Sparrows and at
least 30 Rusty Blackbirds.  Checking several points along the lake shore, I
saw a lot of the expected waterbirds (including good numbers of Red-breasted
Mergansers and Horned Grebes) but nothing unusual -- no jaegers, no scoters.
Don't know why those birds seem to be concentrated farther to the east along
the lake.

Kenn Kaufman
Rocky Ridge, Ohio

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