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Hi folks,

Yesterday we held our annual Big Day in Glen Helen.  Our goal: raise funds
to support land management efforts in the preserve, while searching for
all the birds we could find within the thousand acre preserve.  Organized
activities started at 5:30 am, when a group of ten or so greeted the foggy
dawn from the Grinnell Road Prairie, and continued on with a variety of
hikes and sits in woodland, wetland, and meadow habitats.  The weather
gradually improved throughout the day, going up from 5:30 am low of 45
degrees to a 4:00 pm high of 68.  In retrospect, sunscreen would have been
a good choice.

Even though the Glen didn't feel as birdy as it was last year for our
count (on May 5th), we gradually built up what I would call an entirely
impressive tally of 87 species.  This count includes 20 species of
warblers, even without counting the spectacular male Cape May warbler seen
singing across the street on the Antioch campus.  Other notable sightings
include our first recorded prothonotary warbler, and the first green heron
reported since we started listing sightings in 2006.

Once again, we missed on two of the species that I considered to be sure
things -- rock pigeon and house finch.  Also nowhere to be found were
yellow billed cuckoo (typically common throughout the summer), plus other
birds found within the last 10 days including wild turkey, yellow-throated
vireo, grey-cheeked thrush, palm and cerulean warblers.

But aside from these misses, we found pretty much everything!

Thanks and credit to everyone who lent their time, eyes, and ears to the
effort, including Tim and Greg Spahr, Laurel and Molly Finch, Ken and
Gretchen Beers, Barbara Geri, Pat Perry, Jeff Robertson, Kelley Haldeman,
and anyone else I may be forgetting.

Here's the list, as reported from all observers:
Great blue heron
*Green heron (In mill race at Grinnell Mill)
Turkey vulture
Canada goose
Wood duck (in tree)
Mallard
Cooper's hawk
Red-shouldered hawk
Broad-winged hawk
*Red-tailed hawk
Mourning dove
Great horned owl (three in flight)
Barred owl
Chimney swift
Ruby-throated hummingbird
Belted kingfisher
Red-bellied woodpecker
Downy woodpecker
Hairy woodpecker
Northern flicker
Pileated woodpecker
*Eastern wood pewee
*Acadian flycatcher
*Least flycatcher
Eastern phoebe
Great crested flycatcher
*Eastern kingbird
White-eyed vireo
*Blue-headed vireo
Red-eyed vireo
Blue jay
American crow
Northern rough-winged swallow
Barn swallow
Carolina chickadee
Tufted titmouse
White-breasted nuthatch
Carolina wren
House wren
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Eastern bluebird
*Veery
*Swainson's thrush
Wood thrush
American robin
Gray catbird
Northern mockingbird
*Brown thrasher
European starling
Cedar waxwing
*Tennessee warbler
*Nashville warbler
Northern parula
Yellow warbler
Chestnut-sided warbler
*Magnolia warbler (great looks at a male along the Yellow Springs Creek)
Yellow-rumped warbler
Blackburnian warbler
Yellow-throated warbler (multiple birds seen in the sycamores)
*Bay-breasted warbler
*Blackpoll warbler
Black and white warbler
American redstart
*Ovenbird
Louisiana waterthrush
Common yellowthroat
Hooded warbler
*Prothonotary warbler (by ear)
Summer tanager
Scarlet tanager
Eastern towhee
Chipping sparrow
Field sparrow
Song sparrow
White-throated sparrow (late!)
Nothern cardinal
Rose-breasted grosbeak
Indigo bunting
Red-winged blackbird
Common grackle
Brown-headed cowbird
Baltimore oriole
American goldfinch
House sparrow

* first of the year bird

-Nick

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Nick Boutis
Executive Director

Glen Helen Ecology Institute
405 Corry St.
Yellow Springs, OH 45387

Visit us online, at www.glenhelen.org


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