Bill's link regarding chickadees should serve as a reminder for birders to
maybe not take it as given that any chickadee seen north of certain areas
are automatically Black-capped Chickadees. For the last several years, I've
heard that the dividing line is Route 30, but now I wonder if that's really
true anymore.

During the ABA-sponsored bird walk at the American Birding Expo in Columbus
last year, the leader called out a black-capped chickadee and was surprised
when I told him you only found those in the northern third of the state
now.

Good Birding.
Andy Sewell
Columbus

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Bill Whan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Janet Hinshaw of the U Mich museum called our attention to the following
> article:
>
> http://www.birdwatchingdaily.com/blog/2014/03/06/warming-temperatures-are-pushing-carolina-and-black-capped-chickadees-northward/
>   .  This is happening quickly enough so that living Ohio birders can
> remember these chickadees changing ranges; here is what I wrote in my
> book on central Ohio: see pp 70 and 71 at
>
> http://www.columbusaudubon.org/index.php/2012-11-05-00-23-09/franklin-county-annotated-checklist
>  .
>        In lighter news, some Oregon birders are making hilarious fun of the
> "takeover" of the Malheur NWR; see
>
> http://www.breakingburgh.com/enraged-birders-to-retake-oregon-wildlife-refuge-in-dawn-offensive/
> Bill Whan
>
>
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