I had a killdeer fly over my backyard calling this morning. I returned home
to a treeline full of grackles and red winged blackbirds. Spring is
springing.

                                    Manon VanSchoyck
                                    Ohio Nature Education
                                    Licking County

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:01 PM
Subject: [Ohio-birds] Killdeer already?


I was talking to a friend here is LaRue earlier today and I could have sworn
that I heard a Killdeer.

I didn't see it because I didn't want to be rude to my friend and start
looking all around for a Killdeer but that anoying kree that they have when
they are flying is pretty unforgetable and unmistakeable.  I'm thinking the
wind brought it up from somewhere.


I don't think that their are any other birds that sound like that are there?
I did do a quick scan for starlings and grackles in the trees above and
around me that could be faking that sound, and there weren't any.

Anyway, I guess it's time to start heading out to the wetlands
again...before the Eagle starts Nesting. :-)


Happy Birding and God Bless

Steve

Ezekiel 17:22-24

22 " 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I myself will take a shoot from
the very top of a cedar and plant it;
I will break off a tender sprig from its topmost shoots and plant it on a
high and lofty mountain.

23 On the mountain heights of Israel I will plant it; it will produce
branches and bear fruit and become a splendid cedar.
Birds of every kind will nest in it; they will find shelter in the shade of
its branches.

24 All the trees of the field will know that I the LORD bring down the tall
tree and make the low tree grow tall.
I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish.
      " 'I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.' "

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