Well if you haven't been on Facebook lately, one of our FB Birding Ohio members posted a picture of a Yellow Breasted Chat  over at Killdeer Plains, so i went back today to try and find it...but I couldn't refind it...thankfully she got a picture, and I was able to find the same tree that the Chat had posed in...but of course it wasn't there. (it WAS across from the substation...and probably still is, but hiding now)  So I just decided to drive up and down for a while.

A full list is bellow, but the best part of the day was that I was trying to ID a flycatcher, and I heard a BSBO water bottle gurgling...only I wasn't anywhere near a BSBO water bottle... so I jumped out of my car and ran across the street and up the bank and saw 7 Sandhill Cranes.  One had a band on it.  I reported it as a white band with black letters with the code of Z30...but it could be 230...the picture is unclear on the top letter so if this band sounds familiar, it and 6 other SACRs in pond 27(or pond 1, whichever map you are referencing).  It does look like it is one of Dave Sherman's SACRs but the only info I have has his stopping at Z25.. On a side note, I now consider it an honor to have eBird flag a sighting. :-D

I have a picture of the SACR's  band here:
http://www.sjlarue.com/Birds/Wading-Birds/Sandhill-Cranes/i-ZzzzXFm/0/XL/untitled-5001-2-XL.jpg

I will also be posting pictures of my birds that I was able to photograph on the Birding Ohio Facebook page as well as my page a little later.

Have a great Week, Happy Birding, and God Bless!

Steve J.
Species Count
Canada Goose    50
Mallard 10
Wild Turkey     1
Great Blue Heron        10
Turkey Vulture  10
Bald Eagle      2
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Sandhill Crane  7
Killdeer        X
Rock Pigeon     10
Mourning Dove   X
American Kestrel        2
Willow Flycatcher       X
Eastern Kingbird        2
Yellow-throated Vireo   1
Blue Jay        2
American Crow   2
Horned Lark     2
Tree Swallow    20
Barn Swallow    10
Eastern Bluebird        2
American Robin  20
Gray Catbird    10
Northern Mockingbird    1
Brown Thrasher  1
European Starling       X
Cedar Waxwing   5
Yellow Warbler  5
Eastern Towhee  2
Chipping Sparrow        1
Field Sparrow   10
Grasshopper Sparrow     X
Song Sparrow    10
Northern Cardinal       10
Indigo Bunting  2
Red-winged Blackbird    30
Eastern Meadowlark      20
Common Grackle  5
Brown-headed Cowbird    1
Orchard Oriole  2
Baltimore Oriole        1
American Goldfinch      10
House Sparrow   X

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