Greetings,
There has been a large roost of vultures for the past several days just
outside of Athens. There are well over 100 (as counted while moving 60mph),
and it seems like the more you look the more of them you start seeing in the
trees there under the kettle. I haven't taken the time to get a good count,
but will this weekend.
They are just north of 50 between Athens and Albany. If you take 50W out of
Athens, look off to your right and in the air.
Happy Thursday,
Sarah Milliron
Albany, Ohio
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> 1. hawk pics for my oos friends
> 2. E. 72nd, Cleveland
> 3. Portage Co., Kent, OH, KSU Campus
> 4. Killdeer Plains
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> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:12:00 -0500
> From: Jessica Lowery <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: hawk pics for my oos friends
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> this makes so much sense! thank you.
> -jessica-
> c-bus OH
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> > From: [log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask]> Subject: RE:
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> hio-birds] hawk pics for my oos friends> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:31:10
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> 500> > Jessica, I think your bird is a Cooper's Hawk molting from Juvenile
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> to Adult> plumage. Juvenile's have brown streaks on their breasts, and
> adul=
> ts have> reddish horizontal bars. Photo number 1 shows the horizontal bars
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> you> describe, and they look to me like the Cooper's Hawk bars. Obviously
> t=
> he> change from juvenile to adult takes time, and probably occurs, or at
> le=
> ast> starts, in winter.> > You said it was hunting birds, which would
> indic=
> ate Cooper's. Female> Harriers also have heavy vertical stripes, so I
> don't=
> believe this is a> Harrier. Harriers would likely be hunting in open
> field=
> s, Cooper's would> more likely be in or near woodlands. You didn't say
> wher=
> e this was, but the> bird is perched in a tree. > > Molting birds are
> often=
> a challenge. They don't look like the pictures in> the books, and can be
> d=
> ifficult to identify. > > Let me know what others have to say.> > Good
> Bird=
> ing,> > Gene> > -----Original Message-----> From: Ohio birds [mailto:
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> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of> Jessica Lowery> Sent: Tuesday,
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> ary 15, 2008 11:10 PM> To: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re:
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> io-birds] hawk pics for my oos friends> > the owl was in a ravine behind a
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> friend's house. barred owls come there> every summer - in westerville.
> some=
> people have commented that it may be a> cooper's hawk...or a female
> harrie=
> r. my only problem with the cooper's hawk> i.d. is that is was brown - and
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> juvenile cooper's hawks have heavy vertical> brown streaks on their
> breast,=
> but this hawk was very light underneath with> faint horizontal bars...
> tha=
> t's what makes me unsure.> -jessica-> northeast columbus> > > From:
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> friendsDate: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:48:25 -0500> > > > > > > > > Jessica,>
> Tha=
> nks for the pictures. I was surprised to see the pictures of the baby>
> owl.=
> Did you take all these pictures at Blendon Woods? It's hard to tell> from
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> the picture but I'm thinking the hawk may be Cooper's Hawk. Has any> one
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> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:32:36 EST
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> Subject: E. 72nd, Cleveland
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> The Cleveland lakefront continues to be bountiful with white-winged
> gulls.
> Today there were at least three Iceland gulls in different plumages and
> several Glaucous. The Lesser Black-backeds are now rare.
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> An adult Bald Eagle scattered the many thousands of gulls and then came a
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> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:41:08 -0500
> From: =?windows-1252?Q?Jeremiah_Roth?= <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Portage Co., Kent, OH, KSU Campus
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> Bird report for Kent, Ohio, on Kent State University Main Campus;
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> Black-capped Chickadee
> Song Sparrow
> House Sparrow
> Red-Tail Hawks
> Junco
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> The red-tail hawks are resident and can be commonly be seen perched in=20=
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> trees and on buildings over-looking the fields and woodlots on campus.
> Junco and Black-capped Chickadee were seen behind Cunningham Hall (biolog=
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> building) in the woodlot.
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> Jeremiah W. Roth
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> Kent State University
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> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:59:05 -0500
> From: "David J. Horn" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Killdeer Plains
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> Hello Ohio Birders,
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> Joan Fendrick and I birded Killdeer Plains this afternoon. Birds of =
> note included: two snow geese among gazillions of Canada geese at Pond =
> 27; two rough-legged hawks (one dark, one light); one extremely light =
> red-tailed hawk that at first I thought might be a snowy owl; at least =
> seven short-eared owls along C.R. 71 just before 5 pm. No owls at the =
> traditional grove off C.R. 71 although a birder we met reported having =
> spooked a barred owl from the grove a few minutes earlier.
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> Happy birding,
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> Dave Horn=20
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