Bill, I am pretty sure we had nesting BCNHs  at Big Island this
year...caretaker said he saw them during the spring summer...maybe a new
trend?...Gives me something to look for in the spring I guess. :-)

Steve
On Dec 4, 2014 4:42 PM, "Bill Whan" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>    Just had an enlightening talk with Troy Shively, who always has an
> intelligent eye on his surroundings. He most often birds the Indian Lake
> area, which is largely ignored even though it lies along one of the
> major migratory routes in Ohio--extending from Toledo to Cincinnati
> (think of where most of the cranes show up, or the golden eagles); you
> can call it the I-75 corridor, or the old Ohio Canal route, or the Miami
> River corridor, but it's important. He found a group of nests near
> Indian Lake that resembled night-heron nests; they're abandoned now of
> course, but he'll keep an eye on them in April. This was where Ohio's
> first yellow-crowned night-heron nest was discovered in 1928.
> Black-crowned night-herons have nested in far greater numbers--up to ten
> thousand at West Sister Island in Lake Erie!--but they are nearly as
> rare inland, and are possibly the architects of these nests. Just a
> reminder that inactive nests are easiest to find this time of year, and
> well worth visiting--of course with care--in the spring...
> Bill Whan
> Columbus
>
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