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February 13, 2010

Adding to the growing list of Ohio's wintering female red-winged blackbirds, yesterday (2/12) we had one joining the hordes of house finches, house sparrows and starlings at our feeders. There has been nothing else of any particular note in the remainder of the mix, but it's always nice to watch the birds concentrated by heavy snow. (20-plus inches right here on Flint Ridge. Heavy 7 to 10 inches in other areas nearby, but right here on the hill it really dumped.) 

Downy, hairy and bed-bellied woodpeckers
Plenty of goldfinches
Carolina chickadees and tufted titmice
White breasted nuthatches - I think we have six regulars
occasional scads of mourning doves
Eight cardinals
A bluejay or two
Song, tree and white-throated sparrows
Plenty of juncos

Wednesday (2/10) a little after noon I was driving home from an exhibit installation in Cincinnati. There were very few birds visible from my vantage point, as I drove north on I-71 toward Columbus, but I made note of a few. It had snowed heavily the night before north of Cincinnati (I drove through it on the way down.)

The biggest surprise was a mockingbird fluttering around in the flurries above the median between Mile markers 40 and 41. Three turkey vultures were around Mile marker 39. A red-tailed hawk (adult) glided across the interstate at Mile 89. A ring-billed gull at Mile 97 was probably associated with Darby Creek, fairly nearby.

Bob Evans
Geologist, etc.
Hopewell Township, Muskingum County

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