Awesome shot of a chunky Wilson's Phalarope...and you described it's actions perfectly!
Good birding -
Gabe Leidy
--- On Tue, 9/16/08, Steve <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Steve <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Twin lakes, dublin area
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 12:46 AM
> Due to power disruption from Ike, I didn't have to go to
> work today...Yippee! more birding opportunities. At first I
> TRIED to go to Glacier Ridge but it was blocked off both
> ways for some reason. So I went over to Godwit country
> today instead. It was still there...Looks like the limp is
> about gone.
>
> While there, I think I saw a Juvi Wilson's Phalarope.
> I left a picture up on the OOS sight, so if someone can
> confirm for me I'd be grateful.
>
> Also I saw a bunch (over a dozen) of yellowlegs, mostly
> lesser, Pectoral sandpipers about 6. Two great Egrets,
> Three Green Herons, one GBH, one Turkey vulture....And I
> think that something is wrong with the Killdeer
> population..I only saw a dozen..:)
>
> It was getting dark and I thought about heading home...then
> I smacked myself...Chimney swifts are less than 6 minutes
> away and I was going home?!...I don't think so!...I
> headed over to the middle school and was awe struck at the
> amount of birds that can fit in a chimney and by the sound.
> I commented to another birdwatcher there that it sounded
> like a high pitched machine gun.
>
> Sigh! What a great day off.
>
> Happy Birding and God Bless.
>
> Steve Jones
> (a.k.a. SJLarue)
>
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