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I needed to plan visits to two priority blocks for later this week, so on the way, I stopped by the block where I located the nesting great horned owls in March. What a great area! I had 59 species today, with two warblers I have never found in the four years I have been doing OBBA II work: worm-eating warbler and chestnut-sided warbler. But the bigger surprise was a northern harrier! Pretty exciting!
Here's the complete list observed, all after church today (late morning/mid-day/afternoon:
turkey vulture
NORTHERN HARRIER
red-shouldered hawk
red-tailed hawk
ring-necked pheasant
killdeer
mourning dove
yellow-billed cuckoo
chimney swift
ruby-throated hummingbird
red-bellied woodpecker
downy woodpecker
hairy woodpecker - feeding a fledgling!
northern flicker
eastern wood-pewee
Acadian flycatcher
willow flycatcher
eastern phoebe
eastern kingbird
barn swallow
cedar waxwing
house wren
gray catbird
northern mockingbird
brown thrasher
eastern bluebird
wood thrush
American robin
blue-gray gnatcatcher
Carolina chickadee
tufted titmouse
blue jay
American crow - fledged young
European starling
house sparrow
white-eyed vireo
yellow-throated vireo
red-eyed vireo
American goldfinch
1. blue-winged warbler
2. yellow warbler
3. chestnut-sided warbler - my first breeding CSW in Ohio
4. cerulean warbler
5. worm-eating warbler - my first breeding WEW in Ohio
6. Kentucky warbler
7. common yellowthroat
8. hooded warbler
9. yellow-breasted chat - had at least 6 males doing their crazy thing.
scarlet tanager
eastern towhee
chipping sparrow
field sparrow
song sparrow
northern cardinal
indigo bunting
red-winged blackbird
eastern meadowlark
common grackle
brown-headed cowbird
This brings my total species observed this year in Coshocton Co. to 108. What a fantastic place to bird, and I never realized it.
Other OBBA II volunteers have reported northern harriers during the summer in Coshocton Co. I expected to find one perhaps nearer Woodbury WA, if at all, so imagine my delight and surprise to see one, very clearly, with diagnostic white rump, long wings and tail.
I wasn't able to join the OOS group at Shawnee this weekend, but today was a nice consolation prize, to say the least.
May you all be as fortunate as I,
Margaret Bowman
Region 60 Coordinator, OBBA II
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