I include below a post that appeared last night on the SE Michigan
mailing list. Michigan birders Karl Overman and Robert Epstein, in their
quest for good Ohio lists, have added to our knowledge of our state's
birds over the years. It's interesting to contrast the estimable Ohio
lists reported by Michigan "poachers" with the comparatively puny lists
our "poachers" have for Michigan. This despite the fact that the
official Michigan list has 12 more species than Ohio's, so we can't say
we have the birds and they have the birders! Additionally, I imagine if
we looked at combined Mich/OH lists, the wolverines would be well ahead.
Draw your own conclusions...
Bill Whan
Columbus

Subject: Ohio cherry picking
From: Karl Overman <martineoverman AT earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:57:19 -0400

I am having a hard time posting on Ohio-birds so I will post
something on birding today in Ohio. Robert Epstein and I did some
cherry picking of Ohio stake outs today, September 3rd.  We started
on Township Road 145 in Coshocton County. What a great road for
natural history enthusiasts.  The threesome of Wood Storks were
already busy feeding in the small roadside pond by 6:50 am.  We
stayed in the area for over an hour and they were still feeding
there.  Passerines seen along that road included Hooded Warbler and
Yellow-throated Warbler.  We drove over to the Hoover Reservoir and
from the Galena boardwalk we saw the five White Pelicans on the far
side of the reservoir--two were swimming and 3 were resting on an
island.  Shorebirds along the boardwalk included 1 juvenile Stilt
Sandpiper and a Semipalmated Plover.

We then moved over to the Twin Lakes area on the north side of
Columbus where at 11:45 am we found the Marbled Godwit actively
feeding in  channel on the mostly dry flats.

Cheers,

Karl Overman
Farmington Hills, Mi.

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