As part of the O'shaughnessy CBC yesterday I braved the cold with Matt, Gretchen and Michael to see what we could find. We only had 41 birds, but a lot of them were good ones! I'm sure Darlene Sillick will post an update on all that was observed, so I'll just include some of our group's highlights for January listers:
Red-headed woodpecker- Phone pole at leatherlips yacht club, West side of reservoir
Bald Eagles- Pair observed from leatherlips on ice and perched in trees on East side of reservoir
Catbird- In honeysuckle bush with hundreds of house sparrows, in residential area across from leatherlips
Yellowbellied sapsucker- Area T on West side of reservoir
Yellow-rumped warbler- Area T on West side of reservoir
Pileated Woodpecker- Private residence downstream of dam (have also seen them in park just downstream of dam)
Winter wren- Same as above
Great-horned owl- Same as above
Wood ducks- Same as above, flew south along river when startled.
Golden-crowned kinglet- Park just south of dam (West side)
Snow Geese- Flyover, probably headed to northern quarry where another team found some nice ducks (canvasback, et al).
Bluebirds- lots, at almost every stop!
Also got a great view of a Coopers hawk eating what was most likely a house sparrow on a gaurdrail in Muirfuield (didn't stop eating as we slowly drove past it, within a few feet!).
Please contact Darlene Sillick if you want to be part of this relatively new count next year!!!
I also had a yellow-bellied sapsucker joining the hairy, downy, and red-bellied woodpeckers at my home suet feeder today. Thought I caught a fleeting glimpse of a pine siskin, but couldn't relocate it.
Happy New Year!
Heather
--- On Sun, 1/3/10, Craig Holt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Craig Holt <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [Ohio-birds] Mahoning Co. update--WESTERN TANAGER gone
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 9:14 AM
Hello and Happy New Year to all----First the bad news....The western tanager that showed up at my backyard feeders on 10:30 AM on January 1 has not been seen since 11:40 AM that same morning. The tanager was on it's third lengthy visit when the neighborhood Cooper's hawk launched another attack on the feeder birds. The bright yellow, black, and white tanager must have stuck out like a sore thumb to the Coop (remember, the best bird-watchers are other birds!). The last I saw of the tanager it was fleeing for it's life and making some serious evasive manuevers just ahead of the pursuing Cooper's hawk. I went out back and looked for signs of a strike/kill but found nothing, so perhaps the tanager got away. At any rate, it never returned to the feeders. It made me wonder--does the disappearance of evening grosbeaks (also conspicuously yellow, black, and white and large enough to make a meal for a Coop) from backyard feeding stations over the last
couple decades have anything to do with the enormous increase in urban Cooper's hawks during the same time frame?.........In other local birding news here in NE Mahoning Co., red-shouldered hawks and n. mockingbirds are still fairly common in the area. The Mahoning River from Struthers to Lowellville held 5 ring-necked ducks, 2 c. goldeneyes, and 26 hooded mergansers yesterday. Later, Craig
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