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Jim Fry and I went to Big Island this afternoon. We didn’t get started until
after lunch as Jim had the drive north from Hocking County to contend with
just to get to my place in Delaware County. Jim was hoping the Black-necked
Stilt and Wilson’s Phalaropes would still be around. Like everyone else we
had no luck with the stilts. I guess I used up my quota for them Monday when
they put on a show for everyone. We did better with the Phalaropes, locating 15
in the wetlands off Herr Road close to SR 95. One pair constantly stayed
apart from the rest and displayed breeding behavior as they copulated. Maybe Big
Island will join Hardin County and have a successful breeding pair this
year. The Phalaropes were joined by a nice mix of additional shorebirds including
Semipalmated Plovers, Semipalmated Sandpipers, White-rumped Sandpipers,
Least Sandpipers, Dunlin, a Spotted sandpiper, and a Pectoral Sandpiper. In the
grassland around the wetland were Bobolinks, Eastern Meadowlarks, Grasshopper
Sparrows, Horned Larks and a Savannah Sparrow we heard calling but didn’t
located.
In the old impoundment along Prospect-La Rue Road we located several Common
Moorhens, Northern Pintails, Blue-winged Teal, a Great Egret and listened to
Marsh Wrens singing. They did not come to the top of the cattails and reeds
where we could observe them. There were several Pied-billed Grebes with their
young tailing behind.
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