This is the Ohio Rare Bird Report for March 23, 2007.
Compiler: Paul Gardner.

This is a summary of noteworthy birds reported from
Ohio in the previous week or so. Reports have been
gleaned by the compiler from various internet sources,
particularly Ohio-birds, The Ohio Birding Forum, the
RareBird.org forums, Cincinnati Bird Sightings Log,
Southwestern Ohio (Dayton) Rare Bird Alert, and from
some individual observers who kindly share their
knowledge. Questions, comments, complaints and
additional noteworthy sightings not posted to one of
the above may be sent to the compiler.

Species Mentioned (All caps denotes a review-list
species)

Greater White-Fronted Goose
CACKLING GOOSE
Eurasian Widgeon
Surf Scoter
White-Winged Scoter
Long-Tailed Duck
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
American White Pelican
American Bittern
Great Egret
Osprey
Peregrine Falcon
Little Gull
Iceland Gull
EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE
Northern  Shrike
LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE
Northern Rough-Winged Swallow
Golden-Crowned Kinglet
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Brown Thrasher
American Pipit
SPOTTED TOWHEE
HARRIS'S SPARROW
Fox Sparrow
Rusty Blackbird

Review List Species. (Review list species are
sufficiently rare that details of any sighting can
help increase our understanding of Ohio's bird life.
Suggestions and guidelines for submitting
documentation of review list birds can be found at the
OOS website (www.ohiobirds.org).

CACKLING GOOSE: Found by Rick Asamoto on the 18th at
St Marys Fish Hatchery (Auglaize County). Photos are
at the OOS Forum.

EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE: Michigan birder Dick Wolinski
saw two birds at West Curtis Street at Santa Claus
Trail (Lane?) in Stryker, Williams county on or about
March 12. The birds could not be relocated on the
21st. Photographs, particularly of the diagnostic
undertail coverts, are desired. Currently the only
accepted Ohio record is of hunter-killed birds.

LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE: A banded individual, presumably of
the Ontario, Canada study population, was seen on the
19th in Adams Co. Locational information is being
tightly held for now.

SPOTTED TOWHEE: Last reported on Sunday March 18, at
the feeder of Ms. Jan Dixon, 1948 Whitby Court,
Holland, Lucas County.

HARRIS' S SPARROW: Seen at least as late as the 17th
at the property of Mr. Eli D. Miller, 3395 Township
Rd. 406, Walnut Creek, Holmes County. The bird was
seen by Pam Jordan at the eastern edge of the property
near the compost area and under the feeder.

Seasonal Highlights:

PEREGRINE FALCONS are nesting in Cleveland. Migration
continues apace: COMMON LOON, HORNED GREBE, EARED
GREBE, RUSTY BLACKBIRD, AMERICAN PIPIT, GOLDEN-CROWNED
KINGLET, and FOX SPARROW are widely reported.

GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE: Lee Gruber reported four
from the north beach of East Fork Reservoir on the
18th.

EURASIAN WIGEON: This very rare migrant was spotted by
Levi Yoder in front of the observation tower at Funk
Bottoms WA on the 21st.

SURF SCOTER: Widely distributed inland this week. On
March 18, Jay Lehman found them at Miami Whitewater
and at Spring Valley. John Kuenzli had one at Big
Island WA on the 19th. Scott Albaugh saw them at the
Ohio River Pike Island Lock and Dam near Yorkville,
OH, and Rick Asamoto from Cowan Lake, both on the
20th. On the 21st Rob Thorne found ten at Alum Lake,
Delaware County.

WHITE-WINGED SCOTER: Seen at the Ohio River Pike
Island Lock and Dam near Yorkville, OH on March 20 by
Scott Albaugh.

LONG-TAILED DUCK: Ethan Kistler found a female at
Mosquito Lake, Trumbull Co. on the 18th. Su Synder
reported a drake from Killbruck Marsh WA the same day
that was still being seen at least through the 21st.
Levi Yoder found a female at Wright Marsh on the 21st.

AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN: On March 21, Casey Tucker had
three at the north end of C.J. Brown Reservoir, Clark
County.

AMERICAN BITTERN: The Toledo Naturalist Association
flushed one from some marsh vegetation just northeast
of the north end of Stange Road, west of Ottawa NWR on
the 19th.

GREAT EGRET: One was reported on the 17th from the
Ottawa NWR auto tour. Vic Fazio asks that sightings of
great egrets be submitted to eBird (www.ebird.org) for
a study of their spring migration patterns.

OSPREY: Pairs have returned to nests at Rayland
Marina, Rayland, Belmont County and to Pickerington
Ponds Metropark, Franklin/Fairfield counties. For
information on contributing to our knowledge of Ohio's
Breeding Birds, see The Ohio Breeding Birds Atlas
website at http://www.ohiobirds.org/obba2/.

LITTLE GULL: Lee Grover reported a single bird from
the Dempsey Boat Launch on Sandusky Bay on March 20.

ICELAND GULL: Leidy Gabe found one at Gordon Park,
Cleveland, on the 18th.

NORTHERN SHRIKE: The Brooks Bird Club of West Virginia
found one at Egypt Valley Wildlife Area in Belmont
County on the 19th.  It was seen along County Road 100
about one mile north of U.S. Route 40. Across the
state in Lorain County, Rita Schneider found an
immature bird at Sandy Ridge Reservation in on the
20th.

NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW: Don Morse reported on
the 22nd that they had returned to New Richmond,
Clermont County.

RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET: Steve Pelikan found one on the
22nd at Mt Airy Arboretum, Cincinnati.

BROWN THRASHER: Seen by Mike Busam on the 17th at
Gilmore Ponds Interpretive Preserve, Hamilton, OH.



Paul Gardner
Columbus, OH

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