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Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:26:09 -0400
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A late report from last Saturday, July 13...

I did some atlasing in my block 74D3NW in Cincinnati, concentrating
on Embshoff Woods, a Hamilton County Park District property. Around
7:20 A.M., I spent nearly ten minutes watching a preening WHITE-
THROATED SPARROW. I was able to do a sketch on a piece of scratch
paper. Yellow lores, black and white striped crown, white throat
patch, clear light gray breast, tan back and warm brown wings.

There are no July records of White-throated Sparrow in the
www.cincinnatibirds.com database, not surprisingly. There are records
as late as June 29 and as early as August 4. There were two other
recent SW Ohio reports of heard-only WTSPs on June 19 (Nine Mile
Valley on Cincy's east side) and June 20 (Hamilton Riverside Natural
Area in Hamilton, Ohio). I plan to submit the sketch and notes to the
OBRC.

The bird was seen alongside an access road that leads to a few radio
towers at the edge of the park. It was about twenty feet up in a
walnut tree, preening continuously and silently. After nearly ten
minutes, it stopped preening, slipped up through the branches and
flew back into the hillside trees. I did not see it when I went past
the same spot a few hours later. I saw no behavior to indicate any
nesting and the habitat is unlikely too... typical deciduous
Cincinnati hillside with honeysuckle understory. Not sure why it
thought to spend the summer in Cincinnati... were it me, I'd rather
be enjoying some cool Upper Peninsula air.

Trip List: Chimney Swift 4, Red-bellied Woodpecker 1, Downy
Woodpecker 2, Eastern Phoebe 1, Great Crested Flycatcher 1, Red-eyed
Vireo 3, Blue Jay 3, American Crow 5, Carolina Chickadee 10+, Tufted
Titmouse 2, White-breasted Nuthatch 1, Carolina Wren 2, Blue-gray
Gnatcatcher 10+, Common Yellowthroat 1, Scarlet Tanager 1, Eastern
Towhee 3, Song Sparrow 5, White-throated Sparrow 1, Northern Cardinal
5, Indigo Bunting 10+, Common Grackle 4, Brown-headed Cowbird 3,
Baltimore Oriole 3, American Goldfinch 3

I also found a Wild Turkey feather (found footprints on CBC here two
years ago) and a magnificent, large Eastern Box Turtle.

Bill Zimmerman

Cincinnati

74D3NW







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