I do recall a day after the center of low pressure from an Atlantic
hurricane passed over northeast Ohio- maybe Fran? I don't have the time to
look up the details at the moment but remember that overnight Mosquito Lake
in Trumbull County suddenly held a Laughing Gull, Red-necked Grebe, 10 or
so Red-necked Phalaropes, and 30+ Caspian Terns. Nothing super rare (or
truly pelagic) but more than a coincidence I think.

David Hochadel
Trumbull County

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Bill Whan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On 10/1/2015 9:20 AM, Bill Whan wrote:
>
>> Eric---
>>      Good question. I used to get excited about the storm-driven
>> birds that might accompany hurricanes to Ohio and was repeatedly
>> disappointed. If you think over the landbirds of Virginia and Maryland,
>> the targets of this one are likely not to be a whole lot different
>> from Ohio's. Sure, there are a few rarer species that take a narrow fall
>> route along the Atlantic seaboard--Bicknell's thrush and whimbrel come
>> to mind--but mostly we'll just get more blackpolls.  As for saltwater
>> birds, the chances are very slim: there is a LOT of dry land between
>> here and there, and some mountainous terrain. Atlantic storms are most
>> likely to push odd birds farthest west by way of the St. Lawrence
>> seaway, and most of those don't reach Lake Erie.
>>      Better chances accompany big storms in the Gulf of Mexico, which
>> can push odd petrels and shearwaters and terns up the Mississippi (and
>> then occasionally the Ohio), and are usually the source of frigatebirds
>> here; our sooty tern of a few years back is an example of the rarer
>> ones. But these species are almost never seen during this season from
>> Atlantic storms.
>>      I recommend Greg Miller's article "Gannet Invasion in the Great
>> Lakes: the role of storms" [Ohio Cardinal Autumn 2002], with
>> advice for the hopeful. Also in the Cardinal, I wrote a series of
>> articles I called "Annals of Pelagic Birding in Ohio," which casts some
>> light on this topic. The first, on black-capped petrels, was in the
>> Winter 2002-3 issue; the second, on magnificent frigatebirds, was in the
>> fall 2003 issue; the third treating the weirdest of them all, the
>> invasion of thick-billed murres here in 1896, is in the Winter 2003-04
>> issue. Most Cardinal issues may be read online on the OOS site at
>> http://www.ohiobirds.org/site/publications/cardinal/archiveissues.php  ,
>> and I recommend these articles for the history involved.
>>      Hopes that just might be fulfilled would include highly pelagic
>> birds like terns. Several species never touch land outside the breeding
>> season, and are well adapted to constant flight at this time; this might
>> make it easy for them to be swept west by winds, as they could easily be
>> headed south at this time: roseate, gull-billed, Arctic, and sooty terns
>> (see Donald Morse's article in the Cardinal,Summer 2005),   maybe
>> skimmers, but bear in mind that there are no October records of these
>> species in Ohio!
>>      So, I admit to having harbored unrealistic Ohio expectations from
>> Atlantic hurricanes, and I cannot offer you anything but wind and rain
>> in the sky in the week to come.
>> Bill Whan
>> Cols
>>
>>
>> On 9/30/2015 10:37 PM, Eric Elvert wrote:
>>
>>> So with Hurricane joaquin predicted to strengthen and make landfall
>>> sometime around next Monday. My question to all the long time ohio
>>> birders is. Do you think it has what it takes to push some good birds
>>> into Ohio? And when should we start looking for some of these odd
>>> ball birds. Thanks for any input. Bird On!!!
>>>
>>> Eric Elvert Dayton oh
>>>
>>
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