Greetings from the Black Swamp,

We got an email from birding buddy Scott Myers on Tuesday that he was 60% certain he had heard a Blue Grosbeak in a fence row at the Paulding Sewage Lagoons.  That probability turned out to be 100% this morning when Micki and I both heard and saw the Blue Grosbeak in the same location.  This is only our second record for Paulding County, the other being a single male on our property on June 2, 2011.  The bird sang again and again and responded well to a recording, coming out into the open and perching nicely for us!   Perhaps this second summer sighting up here portends well for increased future visits by this wonderful species?

A historical note:  Although this bird is today found mainly in  the unglaciated  part of Ohio, early bird watcher and oologist Homer Price reported seeing Blue Grosbeaks in early summer in Paulding county from 1926 to 1939.  


Bird long and prosper!
Doug & Micki Dunakin
Antwerp, Ohio

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