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Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:16:11 -0500
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        With spring migration well underway, there are many opportunities to
share sightings that lead to knowledge as well as ticks on the old year
list.
        As always, one way to learn is to look more carefully. Check out David
Sibley's neat post about subspecies of great blue herons seen in Florida
identifiable by season--see  http://www.sibleyguides.com/  . If any Ohio
observers can add similar possible discriminations possible here
locally, please post them here. Some possibilities include robins,
Canada geese, Iceland/Thayer's gulls, horned larks, chickadees, etc.
        For those happy simply to be reassured migration is progressing, there
are the usual sites for popular species like that for purple martins at
  http://purplemartin.org/scoutreport/  and hummingbirds at
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/humm/spring2009/Update043009.html  . I see
on the Carolinas list that it was perhaps bad weather, rather than good,
that kept quite a few migrant ruby-throated hummingbirds and orioles
there for the entire winter at feeders, when they might otherwise have
flown to central America, or perished in the attempt.
        Finally, Angus Wilson asked an interesting question about this winter's
ivory gull invasion which has yet to be answered on the Seabirds list,
though a link has been provided to many observations and stunning photos
of ivories (uncharacteristically predominantly adults) and gyrfalcons in
Newfoundland at
http://peregrineprints.com/ind__WhatsNew.htm   , for those still
nostalgic for winter birds soon to retire to what remains of the Arctic.
Bill Whan
Columbus

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