I thought I would share the results of my "Big Summit County Day" from
yesterday.  I was inspired by a two hour bike ride in which I had 60
species in the Cuy. Valley.   So I wondered how many I could find with my
knowledge of other species elsewhere in the county.

Jon Cefus helped immensely with the first 70 at Ira rd & Station
rd...thanks Jon!  I then went to 9 other spots including: Bath Nature
Pres., Kendall Ledges,  Armington pond, Summit Lk, & Springfield Bog.

I targeted a possible 100 species and over 12 hours found 87 expected
species. ..but there were some surprises. The unexpected one was a  Coot at
Indigo Lk!  The most shocking and perhaps good news is that I found no
Canada geese till Summit Lk in the evening!  Same today I had no geese in
the valley!

The saddest surprise was no Henslow at Armington pond -as they finished
mowing the field.  I did talk to someone who said there were invasive
plants there. The best birds were singing Winter Wren & Bobwhite (even if
they were reintroduced).  I did have 11 warblers and 3 unidentified birds I
just haven't learned their songs yet.

Today I had the Rose Breasted Grosbeak I missed along with the Louisiana
Water thrush the Monday group found...almost 90! Anyway it was great fun
and we have great birding in our neck of the woods!
Blessings
Sandra

______________________________________________________________________

Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society.
Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php.
Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list.


You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at:
listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS
Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]