What is the scoop on the black-tailed gull? I have been off list for a
while and missed the action.
Thanks much,
Susan Ruth Marengo
Northeast Cleveland Heights, Just South of America's North Coast
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> There are 11 messages totalling 421 lines in this issue.
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> Topics of the day:
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> 1. More detailed info on the location of sightings
> 2. Woodcock - Geauga Co
> 3. Hawk in puddle in Berea
> 4. Big Island Waterfowl
> 5. Short-eared Owls at Big Island Wildlife Area (Ben Warner)
> 6. Pete Dunne | BirdCallsRadio next guest
> 7. American Coot in Bluffton (NW Ohio)
> 8. Turkey Vulture - Portage County
> 9. (no subject)
> 10. Another American Coot
> 11. Killdeer Plains (Wyandot Cty) & Big Island (Marion Cty)
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> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 00:03:47 -0500
> From: "Bruce M. Bowman" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: More detailed info on the location of sightings
>
> Date sent: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 07:08:05 -0800
> Send reply to: Paul Gardner <[log in to unmask]>
> From: Paul Gardner <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] More detailed info on the
> location of sightings
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> > Hello Don,
> >
> > Welcome to Ohio-birds!
> >
> > Yours is a perennial complaint. We'll try to do better, but history
> > teaches that we will soon fall back into our old habits of referring to
> > places as if everyone knows them.
> >
> > The places that are most frequently referred to without any discussion of
> > their locations are the long-established birding destinations. If you go
> > the the Ohio Ornithological Society website <www.ohiobirds.org> and pull
> > down the "Birding Library" menu, you'll find a list of popular birding
> > locales.
> >
> > One of the simplest and most effective methods for getting more
> > information about a place is to google it. When I was doing the Ohio Rare
> > Bird Alert, I was able to answer almost all my questions that way.
> >
> > Happy birding,
> > Paul
> >
> > Paul Gardner
> > Columbus, OH
> >
>
> If the location of a birding site is not given in a post, it's often
> helpful to know where the author of the post lives because the birding
> site mentioned in the post is often/usually in the same area. This
> information can be put in the "sig" (signature) of the email. Most email
> programs provide a means for defining a sig that will be appended
> automatically to every email. Paul's sig above is simply "Paul
> Gardner/Columbus, OH". "Columbus, OH" will normally be enough, I'd
> guess, to tell you the general area of a birding site that he has
> mentioned in a post. An example of a sig with more detail about where
> the author lives, and presumably birds, is mine, below.
>
> Bruce
> ------------------------------------
> Bruce M. Bowman
> Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
> Washtenaw Co., southeast Michigan
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> http://www.umich.edu/~bbowman/birds
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> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 08:10:41 -0500
> From: inga schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Woodcock - Geauga Co
>
> Went out in my yard at 7:15 this morning and heard the familiar song of
> the woodcock. Not the peent call, but a little pattern of notes that it =
> makes
> while sitting on the ground. I don't know if that is it's song, or a =
> call note, but
> quite distinctive.
>
> At least two birds.....will trundle out in the fields tonight to see if =
> there are more.
> Frohring Meadows, just up the road from me, is a good spot to look for =
> them.
>
> Perched in the dead elm, which is a favourite outlook for all the hawks, =
> was a
> Great Horned Owl surveying the same fields. I've been seeing one or two =
> owls
> for the last week, and have located at least one roosting tree with lots =
> of whitewash
> and bone filled pellets, but I haven't spotted a nest.
>
> If there is a nest, does anyone have any thoughts on how far away from =
> it a night roost
> might be?
>
> Inga Schmidt
> Chagrin River Road, at the Geauga/Cuyahoga Co line.=
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> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:31:09 GMT
> From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Hawk in puddle in Berea
>
> A couple of days ago I saw a young Cooper's hawk wading around in a pud=
> dle on our street in Berea. I could not be sure what he was doing. I s=
> potted him on my way to my house. The car did not seem to bother him, s=
> o I turned my car around to come closer and watch, but a big ole truck s=
> pooked him away. We seem to have several Cooper's in the neighborhood a=
> t the moment. Kathleen B.- Berea
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> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 09:52:41 -0500
> From: "Steve J." <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Big Island Waterfowl
>
> Just a quick note that I stopped at the pool on SR95 that is just
> before/after Herr Rd. There were 50 Trumpeter Swans all around the pool.
> Along with them there were 50-100 Pintail and just as many Mallards. I also
> spotted a pair of American Widgeon.
>
> Many, many waterfowl are flying around the ponds on 95. Worth a good look
> with a scope.
>
> Later,
>
> Steve
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> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:51:17 -0500
> From: Gentleben <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Short-eared Owls at Big Island Wildlife Area (Ben Warner)
>
> My sister had never gotten out with me to see the Short-eared Owls, so I
> th=
> ought we'd try Big Island Wildlife area, and we found great success.
> Around=
> 5:30pm on Espyville Rd S. (TH 84)(this was in sight of the railroad track
> =
> along rt.95 to the north) just near a pull through type pull off for the
> wi=
> ldlife area, there was a male Short-ear up on a small tree posing nicely.
> I=
> got him in the scope and we saw several other raptors almost immediately.
> =
> Just behind him in a shrub was a Northern Harrier juvenile, in the
> backgrou=
> nd flying around were a couple more Northern Harriers, beyond that were
> two=
> Bald Eagles in a tree, and just to the north was another female
> Short-eare=
> d Owl. We watched the male short-ear chase the female harriers when they
> fl=
> ew too close which was good entertainment. Later on on our way back to
> Dela=
> ware Ohio, we watched these same owls flying and diving on prey items, and
> =
> they were joined by a third owl. We drove up to 95 and on to Prospect
> Upper=
> Sandusky Rd N. (rt 203) and pulled in to the drive by a shed there and
> saw=
> several other Short-eared Owls and a male Northern Harrier. As Steve
> Jones=
> noted, there are many waterfowl in the area, but we saw nothing
> unexpected=
> . It was a great time as usual, and very pleasant weather. Big Island is
> lo=
> cated in the general area just a few miles west of Marion, along rt. 95.=20
> Good Birding
> - Ben Warne
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> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 18:01:10 -0500
> From: Mardi Dickinson <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Pete Dunne | BirdCallsRadio next guest
>
> Birders et al,
>
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> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 18:02:41 -0800
> From: Jean Cook <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: American Coot in Bluffton (NW Ohio)
>
> An American Coot has been in the Bluffton, Ohio area for the last couple
> of=
> weeks. =A0It hangs out with the mallards and Canadian geese. =A0With the
> w=
> armer weather it can be spotted feeding along the shoreline of Riley
> Creek.=
> =0A=0AJean Cook
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> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 21:04:30 -0500
> From: Dave Hochadel <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Turkey Vulture - Portage County
>
> There was a single Turkey Vulture present today in Garrettsville, Portage
> County, where there is a large summer roost right in town- and to think I
> was surprised last year when the first arrived on 2-17.
>
>
>
> I also see that Woodcock were present in adjacent Geauga County today! I
> don't feel so foolish now about searching for them the last 2 days in
> Trumbull County.
>
>
>
> Dave Hochadel
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> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 21:30:16 -0500
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: (no subject)
>
> Linda and I managed to find free time this afternoon and headed up to
> Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area in Wyandot County. The ponds were open but
> the
> variety of waterfowl was limited. Multitudes of Canada Geese and Mallards
> everywhere but beyond that things were less plentiful. Pond 27 had Gadwall
> (100+), a small number of American Wigeon (10), American Coots (50+), and
> Tundra Swans (34). The pond along TH-108 had a couple of Trumpeter Swans
> and
> Tundra Swans (22). In a flooded depression in the farm field north of the
> intersection of OH-294 and CH-115 we found a pair of Redheads. Raptors were
> hit and miss. we found 5 Bald Eagles, 10 Northern Harriers, 8 Red-tailed
> Hawks, a Cooper's Hawk and many American Kestrels. The field along TH-108
> yielded 20+ eastern Meadowlarks. The rest of the normal suspects were
> scatter
> about the area including American Tree Sparrows, Horned Larks and
> Red-winged
> Blackbirds.
>
> At Big Island Wildlife Area in Marion County there were various waterfowl
> scattered in the ponds. Species included Trumpeter and Tundra Swans,
> Pintail, American Wigeon, Ring-necked Duck, Black ducks, and American
> Coots.
> Raptors included many Northern Harriers (including Steve Jones missing
> gray
> males), Bald Eagles and Short-eared Owls. The Short-eareds put on a show
> soaring over the fields, circling around us and one landed on a small
> tree right
> in front of us - Linda's favorite.
>
> Charlie B
>
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> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:59:47 -0500
> From: Lyn Boone <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Another American Coot
>
> We've also had an American coot (just one) here for a week or so on
> Ebaugh Pond on the Denison University campus in Granville. Can't
> remember having seen one here in Jan.-Feb. in previous years.
> Lyn Boone
> Granville
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> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 23:28:27 -0500
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Killdeer Plains (Wyandot Cty) & Big Island (Marion Cty)
>
> A thousand pardons - I forgot to enter the subject when I posted earlier.
>
>
> Linda and I managed to find free time this afternoon and headed up to
> Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area in Wyandot County. The ponds were open but
> the
> variety of waterfowl was limited. Multitudes of Canada Geese and Mallards
> everywhere but beyond that things were less plentiful. Pond 27 had Gadwall
> (100+), a small number of American Wigeon (10), American Coots (50+), and
> Tundra Swans (34). The pond along TH-108 had a couple of Trumpeter Swans
> and
> Tundra Swans (22). In a flooded depression in the farm field north of the
> intersection of OH-294 and CH-115 we found a pair of Redheads. Raptors were
> hit and miss. we found 5 Bald Eagles, 10 Northern Harriers, 8 Red-tailed
> Hawks, a Cooper's Hawk and many American Kestrels. The field along TH-108
> yielded 20+ eastern Meadowlarks. The rest of the normal suspects were
> scatter
> about the area including American Tree Sparrows, Horned Larks and
> Red-winged
> Blackbirds.
>
> At Big Island Wildlife Area in Marion County there were various waterfowl
> scattered in the ponds. Species included Trumpeter and Tundra Swans,
> Pintail, American Wigeon, Ring-necked Duck, Black ducks, and American
> Coots.
> Raptors included many Northern Harriers (including Steve Jones missing
> gray
> males), Bald Eagles and Short-eared Owls. The Short-eareds put on a show
> soaring over the fields, circling around us and one landed on a small
> tree right
> in front of us - Linda's favorite.
>
> Charlie B
>
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