Hey folks - between meetings today up at the Edge Dave Minney came
running in calling a golden eagle.  Needless to say there was a
commotion as we all piled out of the building. Sure enough there it was
a juvenal golden with a broad white stripe at the base of the tail
spinning around the building.  What a shocker.  We have only recorded
two in this county in the twenty years we've been watching.  I also went
home for lunch saw a huge (150+) of passerines in on the road.  As I
approached they wouldn't move they just sat there and stared at me.  As
I got closer they turned into purple finches.  A huge flock that
wouldn't move, it makes me think that they are from way up north perhaps
from the boreal regions where they have not developed a proper fear of
cars and humans.  I almost picked off a couple of them even going slow.
Never encountered something like this before.  Interesting.
 
Pete
 
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Pete Whan
Appalachian Forest Program Manager
The Nature Conservancy of Ohio
Edge of Appalachia Preserve
4274 Waggoner Riffle Rd.
West Union, OH  45693
 
Ph. 937-544-2188 ext. 13
fax  937-544-7030
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