Here is a list of what was on display Sept. 6 at the Treaty Line viewing place, north end of Brookville Lake, IN:
Great Blue Herons (dozens lining the shore and mudflats)
Great Egrets (a dozen or more)
Ring-billed Gulls
Caspian Terns
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Dunlin
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Semi-palmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Killdeer
Semi-palmated Plover
Black-bellied Plover
In addition, at Acton Lake,Ohio, along with the Great Blue Herons and Killdeer in abundance were:
Great Egrets
Green Herons
White-eyed Vireo
Black-throated Green Warbler
Wood Duck
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There are 16 messages totalling 881 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Common Nighthwaks-Highbanks Metro Park
2. nighthawks
3. common nighthawks, Ada
4. 17 species of shorebirds, Berlin Lake 9/6AM
5. Ind. Lake, Logan Cty question - lost racing pigeon
6. Hawk ID
7. Englewood Metropark Shorebirds
8. Hawk ID & CBC info
9. 9/6 - HBSP, Conneaut - Red Knot
10. Delaware reservoir shorebirds
11. Ohio's Big White Birds 9/6/08
12. Fwd: looking for a few good OH birds
13. Blendon Woods Sept 6
14. Avon Lake and Lorain report
15. a swift night at Sells Middle School, Dublin Ohio
16. Little Blue Heron at Ottawa NWR; missing Tricolored Heron at Medusa
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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 05:56:40 -0400
From: Bill Whan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Common Nighthwaks-Highbanks Metro Park
Rob and all--
Between 730 and 815 I had five nighthawk flights in Clintonville last
night: 35 headed south, 26 headed north, 34 headed south, 45 headed
north, 78 headed north. It's possible this was a foraging flock that
moved over, collecting passing birds and growing larger, at intervals of
10-15 min. I was surprised to see not a single chimney swift.
Bill Whan
Columbus
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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 07:41:53 -0400
From: Sandra Gaunt <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: nighthawks
I have had nighthawks mixed with swifts over the Hayden Falls area for the
last week. Small numbers, 6-12. I am heartened to hear of the larger
flocks being seen. The nighthawks are probably recovering in numbers as
the crow population has been thinned over the past years by west-Nile
virus, crows being a major predator on nighthawk nests.
Sandy
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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 05:06:16 -0700
From: CL Caprette <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: common nighthawks, Ada
I saw a flock of about 20 common nighthawks flying southwest over Ada (Hardin Co.) yesterday evening, together with a handful of chimney swifts. A great-horned owl has been calling regularly in the early morning hours as well.
Chris
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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 10:06:30 -0700
From: kent miller <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: 17 species of shorebirds, Berlin Lake 9/6AM
Berlin Lake in Stark County north of Allliance continues to provide excelle=
nt shorebirding. For now, the prime habitat remains just west of the Rt. 22=
5 bridge. Habitat will be improving east of the bridge rapidly as well with=
3 turnstones there today. Habitat is also showing up northeast a few miles=
at the Rt. 224 bridge with several sanderlings there recently. Birds can a=
lso be seen looking north from the Price Rd parking area just west of Rt 22=
5 and by walking along the west shore south from the Price Rd parking area.=
Following is a list of Saturday mornings numbers. Unless otherwise indicat=
ed most birds were west of the Rt 225 bridge:
Killdeer 505
Semipalmated Plover=A0 12
American Golden Plover 3
Black-bellied Plover=A0 1
Lesser Yellowlegs=A0=A0 61
Greater Yellowlegs=A0=A0 5
Semipalmated Sandpiper=A0 55
Least Sandpiper=A0=A0=A0 62
Baird's Sandpiper=A0=A0 2=A0=A0=A0 (south of Price Rd)
Pectoral Sandpiper=A0 80
Spotted Sandpiper=A0 8
Solitary Sandpiper=A0=A0 5
Buff-breasted Sandpiper=A0 3=A0 (6 were here last night)
Stilt Sandpiper=A0=A0 3
Short-billed Dowitcher=A0 1
Ruddy Turnstone=A0 3=A0 (east of the Rt 225 bridge)
Wilson's Phalarope 2=A0 (1 south of Price Rd)
=A0
Kent Miller
Hartville, OH
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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:56:11 -0400
From: Darlene Sillick <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Ind. Lake, Logan Cty question - lost racing pigeon
A friend who lives at Indian Lake, outside Bellefountaine, Ohio called and
said they have had a banded racing pigeon hanging around their dock area for
several days now. If anyone knows someone in the area who has racing
pigeons they can contact Carolyn Murray at 614-738-2050. They live on
Minnewakin Island, the last island from the Moundwood entrance.
Thank you and my apologies in advance if this email is inappropriate for
this list.
Darlene Sillick
Powell, Ohio
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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 15:36:03 -0400
From: Bob Baran <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Hawk ID
I was just going through some older pictures from last year and need help
with confirming the ID on the hawk per the link below. Any assistance is
greatly appreciated. This was taken at Glacier Ridge in early Spring 2007.
Regards,
Bob
http://bsquaredphotos.smugmug.com/gallery/2297336_dpYUm#366837629_wZTx4
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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 15:36:31 EDT
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Subject: Englewood Metropark Shorebirds
Saturday, Sept. 6 - 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Stilt sp - 8
Solitary sp - 5
Short-billed dowitcher - 1
Great egret - 6
Lesser yellowlegs - 15
Pectoral sp - 4
Least sp - 4
Semipalmated sp - 4
Am. golden plover - 1
Killdeer - 200+
Green-winged teal - 4
Belted kingfisher
Great blue herons
Wood ducks
Cedar waxwings
Red-tailed and Cooper's hawks
Barn swallows
Turkey vultures
Indigo bunting
Bluejay
Eastern wood pewee
Am. crows
And most of the "regular stuff"
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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:46:45 -0400
From: Darlene Sillick <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Hawk ID & CBC info
I just sent this link to Bob Baran. After many studies of red-shouldered
hawks in several states I had to do more for Bob than to say what it was. I
looked up a good link for him with a similar view of his bird.
I went to the intranet and typed in 'red-shouldered hawk in flight' and an
interesting website popped up. Brian Wheeler has his fabulous book out on
photographing and identifying these magnificent birds of prey. There is a
website to visit to work through difficult views.
http://www.virtualbirder.com/bkwheeler/
Brian K. Wheeler is a noted bird artist, bird photographer, and author. He
is best known as illustrator, co-author, and co-photographer for Peterson
Field GuidesR:Hawks and A Photographic Guide to North American Raptors. He
is highly acclaimed as a raptor photographer with numerous credits in
magazines and books. He also paints life-sized images of North American
birds.
Remember Brian will be speaking (keynote speaker) at the BSBO/OOS Raptor
Conference the end of Sept. I can't wait to hear him speak.
http://www.greatblue.com/cgi-bin/vbirder-boilerPlate/BKWHIF?CONFIG_ID=r19
<http://www.greatblue.com/cgi-bin/vbirder-boilerPlate/BKWHIF?CONFIG_ID=r19&C
ONFIG_FILE=/vbirder/HAWK/gallery/bkwheeler/Gallery.dat&BAND=mid>
&CONFIG_FILE=/vbirder/HAWK/gallery/bkwheeler/Gallery.dat&BAND=mid
It appears this website has been there for a few years but I thank Bob for
posting his photo question to help me find an interesting website so I can
learn more. I live close to Glacier Ridge and know they have had nesting
red-shoulders there. Plus the western part of Dublin is in my CBC circle
and I have been delighted over the last couple years to find them on count
day.
Please note: the OHOS CBC (O'Shaughnessey Christmas Bird Count) is Saturday
Jan 3, 2009. It takes in 3 counties, southern Delaware, northwestern
Franklin and eastern Union counties. Please email me privately if you can
help our team with this important CBC. And they are all important to bird
conservation and citizen science!!
Darlene Sillick
Powell, Ohio
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Subject: [Ohio-birds] Hawk ID
I was just going through some older pictures from last year and need help
with confirming the ID on the hawk per the link below. Any assistance is
greatly appreciated. This was taken at Glacier Ridge in early Spring 2007.
Regards,
Bob
http://bsquaredphotos.smugmug.com/gallery/2297336_dpYUm#366837629_wZTx4
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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:15:00 -0700
From: Leidy Gabe <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: 9/6 - HBSP, Conneaut - Red Knot
Highlights from the Kirtland Bird Club field trip this
morning at Headlands Beach State Park:
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 2
Gray-cheeked Thrush 1
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Several of us continued to Conneaut, arriving shortly
after noon. While only nine shorebird sp. were
spotted, RED KNOT, 50+ Sanderlings, and 7 turnstones
made the trip worthwhile.
Good birding -
Gabe Leidy
Cleveland
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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:10:41 -0700
From: Jack Stenger <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Delaware reservoir shorebirds
On Friday (9/5)=A0evening Jed Burtt, Sean Williams and I birded the north e=
nd of Delaware Reservoir in Delaware County. There is excellent shorebird h=
abitat visible from the SR 229 bridge. 2 nonbreeding SANDERLINGS were the h=
ighlights.=A0=20
=A0
Other birds:
=A0
2=A0=A0=A0 Caspian Tern
70=A0 Killdeer
60=A0 Lesser Yellowlegs
6=A0=A0=A0 Greater Yellowlegs
12=A0=A0Solitary Sandpiper
3=A0=A0=A0 Spotted Sandpiper
2=A0=A0 Sanderling
3=A0=A0 Semipalmated Sandpiper
12=A0 Least Sandpiper
16=A0 Pectoral Sandpiper
3=A0=A0=A0 Short-billed Dowitcher
24=A0 Stilt Sandpiper
35=A0 Common Nighthawks
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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 19:51:02 -0400
From: Su Snyder <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Ohio's Big White Birds 9/6/08
Hi all: A group of us from the Greater Mohican Audubon Society and Malabar
Farms visited Hoover Reservoir today. The 5 AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS could
be seen from Oxbow Road and were still there when we left at 1:45PM.
We then took off east to see the Coshocton County WOOD STORKS, but
apparently missed them by a few minutes. Another birder informed us that
shortly before we arrived, they had been scared off by a Great Blue
Heron--one stork took off going west, and 2 took off going east. The storks
had not yet returned when we left around 4:30PM. Hopefully they are still
around for those who haven't had a chance to see them yet. Su Snyder,
Wooster
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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 20:39:30 EDT
From: Rick Waldrop <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Fwd: looking for a few good OH birds
Here is my wish list again, with the right email address this time.
Rick Waldrop
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To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 9/6/2008 8:36:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: looking for a few good OH birds
Hello all,
I will be birding in OH (mostly southern) next week and will be looking for
the following, plus any rarities in the area:
Am. Widgeon
N. Pintail
Pheasant
R. Grouse
Am. Bittern
Snowy Egret
L. Blue Heron
N. Harrier
Va. Rail
Black-bell. Plover
Am. Golden
sandpipers minus Least
dowitchers
Common Tern
Forester's
Black
both cuckoos
BARN OWL
Whip-poor-will
Yellow-bell. Sapsucker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bell.
Acadian
Least
Bank Swallow
Black-cap. Chickadee
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Sedge
Marsh
both kinglets
Veery
Hermit Thrush
Am. Pipit
Golden-w. Warbler
Orange-cr.
Black-thr. Blue
Yellow-thr.
Pine
Cerulean
Ky.
Mourning
Canada
Henslow's Sparrow
Purple Finch
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin
Thanks for any help on any species, locations and other tips offered,
especially for BARN OWL.
Rick Waldrop
Cleveland, TN
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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 21:09:11 -0400
From: "McNulty, Robert" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Blendon Woods Sept 6
large number of warblers, most easily found on the Lake trial and around =
the
blinds at the lake, all morning.=20
Warblers: Magnolia
american redstart
blue winged
black throated green
tennessee
blackburnian
chestnut sided
bay breasted
norhtern parula
blackpoll
black throated blue
ovenbird
hooded
canada warbler
cape may
swainson's thrush
woodthrush
blue gray gnatcatcher
yellow bellied flycatcher
pileated woodpecker
philadelphia vireo
scarlet tanager
cedar waxwing
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Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 01:34:12 +0000
From: jen brumfield <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Avon Lake and Lorain report
Greetings birders -=20
=20
This morning the shores of Lake Erie were blustery with sustained NNE winds=
at 25+mph. Birds were moving wildly along the coast. I was really hoping t=
o get my heart jumping with a jaeger or something of the sort but alas noth=
ing in the way of real "seabirding" came about. Between 9am and 11am I set =
up shop off the jetty at Avon Lake and scanned the horizon religiously with=
my scope. Amazingly=2C I was glad I'd brought along my wool hat and thick =
windbreaker=2C as my eyes started to tear up quickly in the almost-like-Nov=
ember weather.=20
=20
Any sort of distant lake-or-sea watching is not exactly an easy task. Typic=
ally in sustained winds and "rough" white-capped water your scope views are=
relatively brief and often strained. Coupled by birds typically moving at =
a high rate of speed and low over the water...and you have the makings for =
a really sore pair of eyes after repeated scans.=20
=20
The following list of birds were mostly very distant. Both species of teal =
were seen in broken numbers associating with passing small flocks of Mallar=
ds. Swift and martin are included because they were high out over the lake =
associating with soaring "kettles" of gulls. Three yellowlegs of unidentifi=
ed species flew over at an ungodly height=2C and a passing flock of Black-b=
ellied Plovers was so distant it took an entire 180 degree field of view=2C=
following the flock on the horizon with my scope=2C to finally be certain =
of the call on ID. Seawatching rocks.=20
=20
"Seawatch" at Avon Lake:=20
Mallard - 40+
Green-winged Teal - 15
Blue-winged Teal - 30
unidentified duck spp - 20
Double-crested Cormorant: 450=20
Black-bellied Plover - 11 (single flock)
Sanderling - 8
yellowlegs sp - 3
Ring-billed Gull - 600+
Herring Gull - 60+
Great Black-backed Gull - 1
Bonaparte's Gull - 24
Caspian Tern - 4
Chimney Swift - 100+
Purple Martin - 25
=20
=20
=20
Lorain Impoundment adjacent to Spitzer Marina: 10 spp shorebirds
The majority of the birds were encountered in the southernmost mudflat (imm=
ediately north of the parking lot upon walking ontop of the dike) and north=
easternmost corner of the impoundment. Shorebirds were joined by a flock of=
16 Green-winged and 8 Blue-winged Teal=2C very very flighty birds.=20
=20
Killdeer - 4
Semipalmated Plover - 13
Baird's Sandpiper - 3
White-rumped Sandpiper - 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 30
Least Sandpiper - 25
Stilt Sandpiper - 1
Pectoral Sandpiper - 8
Short-billed Dowitcher - 2
Lesser Yellowlegs - 6
=20
Other:=20
Osprey - 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1
Yellow Warbler - 14
Common Yellowthroat - 4
=20
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best of birding-=20
jen
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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 22:07:10 -0400
From: Darlene Sillick <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: a swift night at Sells Middle School, Dublin Ohio
Not the numbers of astounding counts of by gone years, but tonight at Sells
Middle School in Dublin Ohio (161/Rt 33 just east of 270) was the best of
the 2008 season. I would imagine the numbers will continue to increase for
the next couple weeks. I estimated about 750 chimney swifts give or take.
20 -25 birders and now new birders enjoyed the awesome evening and
spectacle. The first bird went in at 7:20pm and last went in about 8:20pmET.
Between 7:20 and 8:05 pm about 40 birds went in the chimney then the stream
of birds descended. From 8:05 to 8:18pm about 700 birds streamed in. From
8:18 to 8:20pm another 8 to 10 birds went in. The light by the little more
than crescent moon gave a nice back light to the chimney. About 7:15pm I
could see a stream of nighthawks to the south heading east. With the school
building in the way, I could only see about 8 birds above the roof.
Definitely a flock on the move... As with a couple nights ago, a low flying
bat was chased away by a couple swifts when it entered the area where the
large swift flock was tightening their counter clockwise flight pattern.
Try to head out before 7:30pm and watch the large chimneys in your areas.
It really is an interesting spectacle to observe.
Larry & Elaine Smith of Hilliard Ohio emailed me last night to say that the
activity is high at the Galena United Methodist Church. "We got a pizza and
some soda and parked there in the school bus lot to the east like we were at
an old timey drive-in theatre. The show was truly spectacular - the most
amazing thing I have seen outdoors in a long time! I was enjoying the
beauty of it too much to try getting a count, but at their peak the swift
density was such that I would estimate there were many more than 1,300 birds
swirling overhead! Unfortunately, we were the only people there to see it
(except for occasional strolling townsfolk, probably jaded from regular
exposure, who gave the birds only brief glances).
It was exciting to think that the swift show was no doubt going on in Dublin
simultaneously! When we arrived at 7:33 pm, there were already maybe 3-4
dozen birds in the air. After countless apparently aborted attempts, the
first swift actually dropped into the chimney at 8:03 pm, and they were all
inside by 8:20 pm (which happened to coincide with the time that the first
katydids began calling . . . wonder if the two species are triggered by the
same light intensity level??). What an amazing show - I am speechless!
Something every lover of nature should witness at least once."
Thanks,
Darlene Sillick
Powell, Ohio
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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 22:36:48 -0400
From: Bill Heck <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Little Blue Heron at Ottawa NWR; missing Tricolored Heron at Medusa
The Tricolored Heron reported at Medusa Marsh was not in sight today at
about 10:30 am. There were plenty of egrets, though, including a surprising
8 or so Snowies.
Birds were very sparse in the early afternoon at Ottawa NWR, but an immature
(white) Little Blue Heron was associating with a few egrets in the far
corner of the pond behind the old nature center/store. The bird was easier
to see from the service road/trail running alongside the pond than from the
small boardwalk in back of the buidling, as the little island in the middle
of the pond blocks the view from the latter site.
The water was *very* high in the channel and estuary at Ottawa, apparently
too deep even for herons and egrets for the most part. The two ponds most
easily accessible were largely choked with vegetation. The end result was
very few birds. But continuing the low quantity/high quality theme, a
Peregrine Falcon flew over and a locally uncommon Northern Mockingbird was
on the trail not far from the old parking lot. Several eagles, particularly
young ones, were easily seen soaring about.
--
Bill Heck
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