Mark your calendars to help at the OHOS Christmas Bird Count on Thursday
December 31, 2015.  We meet at the Wendy’s at Dublin Rd and Glick Rd at
7amET to get your maps, check lists and assignments.  Please email Darlene
on or before Dec 20 if you plan to help with the count so she can assign
teams.  We welcome new birders and last year our 68 observers compiled 79
species of birds for the day.  An overview for the 2014 count is below.
Look forward to hearing from you if you can help this year.  We meet at 5pm
at Iacano’s in Shawnee Hills to turn in data sheets and celebrate our hard
work and warm up with food and bird tales/tails………….

 

Thanks

Darlene Sillick

Powell, Ohio 43065

Mobile/text  preferred 614-288-3696

 


National Audubon Christmas Bird Count: O’Shaughnessy Circle


Location

The O’Shaughnessy Reservoir Christmas Bird Count is centered at 40.2167
degrees North x -83.2167 degrees West, which is in Union County just
northwest of the intersection of Watkins Road (CR 104) and State Road (CR
96).  The count circle includes much of the O'Shaughnessy Reservoir,
suburban Dublin and some Plain City, eastern Marysville, western Powell,
southern Delaware and rural areas. The Columbus Zoo, Glacier Ridge Metro
Park, Blues Creek and Emily Traphagen and Ohio Wildlife Center and Twin
Lakes are some highlights along the Scioto River corridor. 


History

The O’Shaughnessy Reservoir CBC has been conducted annually since 1955.

 

 

115th OHOS Christmas Bird Count          December 31, 2014

 

December 31, 2014, 68 observers sponsored by Columbus Audubon, spent the day
counting birds in NW Columbus including Franklin, Delaware and Union
Counties.  It was a very cold day (11-23 degrees during count time) and 66
observers in the field with 2 feeder counters were able to tally 79 species
(including 2 found during count week) and a total of 14,399 individual
birds.

Count Date: December 31, 2014; 6:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.     Temp. 11-25 ºF.
Wind 5-10 mph   Still water partly frozen, moving water starting to freeze.
The day was partly cloudy

Observers: 66 in the field in 13 parties, 2 at the feeders.   Total party
hours:  171 (127 on foot, 43 in cars, 1 on bike; 3 owling).   Total Party
miles: 251.7 driven, 59.25 hours driven, 47.5 miles walked and 109.5 hours
walked including 3 folks owling)

Pied-billed Grebe – 1;  Double-crested Cormorant –1;  Great Blue Heron – 36;
Tundra Swan – 3; Mute Swan – 2;  Canada Goose – 1027;  Black Duck – 14;
Mallard – 818; Northern Shoveler – 16;  Gadwall – 2;  Lesser Scaup - 4;
Ring-necked Duck – 5;  Common Goldeneye – 11; Hooded Merganser – 43; Common
Merganser – 3; Canvasback – 6; Ruddy Duck – 2

Bald Eagle – 12;  Sharp-shinned Hawk – 1; Cooper’s Hawk – 25; Northern
Harrier – 3;  Red-shouldered Hawk – 7;  Red-tailed Hawk – 95;  American
Kestrel – 24;  Rough–legged Hawk- 1 (CW)

Wild Turkey – 6;  Pheasant – 2; Bonaparte’s Gull- 6; Ring-billed Gull – 275;
Rock Dove –146;  Mourning Dove – 328;  

Eastern Screech Owl – 2; Great Horned Owl – 2;  Barred Owl –4;  Long-eared
Owl – 1; Short-eared Owl – 1; 

Belted Kingfisher – 9;  Red-headed Woodpecker – 6;  Red-bellied Woodpecker –
82;  Yellow-bellied Sapsucker – 7;  Downy Woodpecker – 88;  Hairy Woodpecker
– 31;  Northern Flicker – 36;  Pileated Woodpecker – 11

Blue Jay – 293;  American Crow – 212;  Horned Lark – 151;  Carolina
Chickadee – 270;  Tufted Titmouse – 167;  White-breasted Nuthatch – 81;
Red-breasted Nuthatch – 1;  Brown Creeper – 20;  Carolina Wren – 41; Winter
Wren – 1;  Golden-crowned Kinglet – 4;  Eastern Bluebird – 147;  Hermit
Thrush – 1 (CW);  American Robin – 380;  Northern Mockingbird – 17;
European Starling – 5898;  Cedar Waxwing – 5;  Yellow-rumped Warbler – 4;
Northern Cardinal – 539;  Eastern Towhee – 2;  American Tree Sparrow – 235;
Field Sparrow – 9; Song Sparrow – 77;  Swamp Sparrow – 1;  White-throated
Sparrow – 84;  White-crowned Sparrow – 6;  Fox Sparrow – 1; Dark-eyed Junco
– 541;  Red-winged Blackbird – 1;  Common Grackle – 4;  House Finch – 364;
Purple Finch – 1;   American Goldfinch – 241;  Pine Siskin – 1;  House
Sparrow – 1285

Totals:   79 species, 14,339 individuals (we had 81 species in #114 last
year)

Birds seen Count Period, but not Count Day:  Hermit Thrush and Rough-legged
Hawk

Special thanks to the 13 parties and 66 people in the field along with the 2
feeder counters giving their time to #115 years of citizen science for
National Audubon.  See you next year on Dec. 31, 2015!!

Best,

Darlene


 

 


 

 

 

 

 


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