In response to your Black-tailed Gull question. After saying no to chasing the Black-tailed Gull for all this time, I finally went yesterday, 2 Feb. It was a beautiful day considering it was 2 Feb and it took me from 9am to 230pm until I found it. I had all day, and considering a 4 hour drive to get there, I planned to stay until dark if necessary. It was on the roof of the building closest to the gazebo at Lake Shore Park. The bird kept going behind a ventilator on the roof. Had great looks at the bird beside Herring and Ring-billed gulls (comparing back color and size) on the roof and of the tail as it flew in front of the piles of stone and coal.
Hope you get to see the bird.
Tom Beachy, Urbana, OH
From: susan ruth marengo <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Friday, February 3, 2012 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] OHIO-BIRDS Digest - 1 Feb 2012 to 2 Feb 2012 (#2012-34)
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
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> 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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> 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
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> 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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