Interesting day yesterday at Lawrence Woods SNP (Hardin County)
It was almost like Spring...only drabber. :-D
I decided to check out a path that has been maintained all year, but I
never had the time to see where it lead until yesterday. Turns out it is
about a mile long and meanders all through some pretty good habitat. I was
hoping to catch an Orange-crowned unaware...but all I found was a Female
Common Yellowthroat which looked SOOOOOOO close to an Orange-crowned
Warbler, that I had to wait till I got home to look at the pictures. If
they keep this path open next year, it might be a good trail to go
exploring for all of those spring blackbirds, and Warblers that like that
type of habitat.. ;-)
After completing that mile walk through the grassland, I took the
traditional boardwalk path. LOTS of unidentified peeping noises...I got
most I think, but things were flying in places too fast to track, and
others, they hid REALLY well. :-D
Notable Notes (To Me):
Must be Peregrine season because I saw one fly over as I was pulling
in...Beauty.
Took me two years...more like five, but whose counting?...but I finally got
a Mourning Warbler in the woods.
A Winter Wren made a brief "here's my butt, watch me leave" presence...cute
little thing, but I wish it had stayed long enough for a good picture.
Lots of Blue Jays..must be passing through..usually not that many.
Two Barred Owls were hooting it up at different ends of the woods.
At first I thought it was something else, but a Wild Turkey was calling out
in the woods somewhere.
That's it for Lawrence Woods. One note for Big Island Wildlife Area...I
already have a Northern Harrier for the season...she flew right in front of
my car when I was heading home from Marion on Wednesday. Reminds me of a
poem...
Something Told The Wild Geese
Something told the wild geese
It was time to go;
Though the fields lay golden
Something whispered, - 'snow'.
Leaves were green and stirring,
Berries, luster-glossed,
But beneath warm feathers
Something cautioned, - 'frost'.
All the sagging orchards
Steamed with amber spice,
But each wild breast stiffened
At remembered ice.
Something told the wild geese
It was time to fly -
Summer sun was on their wings,
Winter in their cry.
- Poem by Rachel Lyman Field
List from Lawrence Woods below.
Happy birding, and God bless!
Steve J.
Lawrence Woods State Nature Preserve-Prairie Path, Hardin, Ohio, US
Sep 26, 2015 9:35 AM - 10:55 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments: Mowed grassland trail. This would be good trail to explore
grasslands for Bobolinks in the Spring.
21 species
Turkey Vulture 5
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Mourning Dove 4
Red-headed Woodpecker 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 2
Peregrine Falcon 1 flyover
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Blue Jay 12
American Crow 6
Tree Swallow 10
Carolina Chickadee 2
Tufted Titmouse 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
House Wren 2
Common Yellowthroat 2
Field Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 4
Northern Cardinal 1
American Goldfinch 6
View this checklist online at
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S25186287
Lawrence Woods State Nature Preserve, Hardin, Ohio, US
Sep 26, 2015 10:56 AM - 1:12 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.8 mile(s)
Comments: Submitted from BirdLog NA for Android v1.9.6
34 species
Canada Goose 2
Wild Turkey 1
Turkey Vulture 4
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Mourning Dove 6
Barred Owl 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 4
Northern Flicker 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1
Acadian Flycatcher 1
Blue Jay 18
American Crow 6
Carolina Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 8
House Wren 2
Winter Wren 1
Carolina Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
American Robin 2
Gray Catbird 2
European Starling 8
Ovenbird 1
Nashville Warbler 2
Mourning Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 4
American Redstart 2
Magnolia Warbler 2
Field Sparrow 6
Song Sparrow 8
Northern Cardinal 2
American Goldfinch 5
View this checklist online at
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S25186288
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