Ohio birders have added several shared bird reporting hotspots to eBird. http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/ New: Here is a tip on how to get a “life list” of all the birds you have reported to eBird at a personal location, such as your backyard. http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Location+Life+List Several new Ohio Birding Drives have been added. http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Ohio+Birding+Drives Birding drives have been developed for some of Ohio’s “under birded” areas, hoping to encourage birders to visit these counties when they are traveling in Ohio. There are 28 Ohio counties with fewer than 1000 eBird checklists submitted. Here are the newest birding drives. There are now birding drives for 18 of these 28 “under birded” counties. Brown County Birding Drive http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Brown+County+Birding+Drive Captina Creek Birding Drive (Belmont County) http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Captina+Creek+Birding+Drive Coshocton County http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Coshocton+County+Birding+Drive Defiance County Birding Drive http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Defiance+County+Birding+Drive Gallia County Birding Drive http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Gallia+County+Birding+Drive Mogan County Birding Drive http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Mogan+County+Birding+Drive Noble County Birding Drive http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Noble+County+Birding+Drive Pike County Birding Drive http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Pike+County+Birding+Drive Williams County Birding Drive http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Williams+County+Birding+Drive New hotspots which have recently been added. Belmont County (These hotspots are on the Captina Creek Birding Trail, recently opened by the Belmont Soil and Water Conservation District.) Captina Creek Mainstem http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Captina+Creek+Mainstem Marina at Powhatan Point http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Marina+at+Powhatan+Point Raven Rocks http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Raven+Rocks South Fork of Captina Creek at Rainbows End http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/ South+Fork+of+Captina+Creek+at+Rainbows+End Carroll County Leesville Lake Wildlife Area--OH-164 and Desert Rd. http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Leesville+Lake+Wildlife+Area--OH-164+and+Desert+Road Coshocton County The hotspots in the Woodbury Wildlife Area have been re-named to use road names, rather than areas of the wildlife area. A new hotspot suggestion also south of OH-541 prompted this change. Woodbury Wildlife Area--Co. Rd. 4 (new) Woodbury Wildlife Area--Co. Rd. 286 (formerly Southeast, South of OH-541) Woodbury Wildlife Area--Township Highway 302 (formerly Central, North of OH-541) Woodbury Wildlife Area--Township Rd. 56 and Township Rd. 58 (formerly Northwest) Woodbury Wildlife Area--OH-541 Dove Hunting Area (no change) http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Woodbury+Wildlife+Area Hamilton County Mount Saint Joseph on the Ohio http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Mount+Saint+Joseph+on+the+Ohio Morgan County Burr Oak SP--Boat Dock 3 http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Burr+Oak+State+Park--Boat+Dock+3 Ottawa County Jane Coates Wildflower Trail http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Jane+Coates+Wildflower+Trail Ken Ostermiller eBird Hotspot reviewer for Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]
