Wed Dec 21 tour of the area from Dalton-Wilmot-Winesburg-Trail.

hits:

1) western and summer tanagers at their known locations.

homeowner at "western" encouraged us to stick around as the bird was coming
regularly on Tues and Wed this week.  it had been missing a couple days due
to a prowling Cooper's hawk, but as of Dec 21 has now been on location for
three weeks.  sure enough, after a quiet spell, birds began arriving:
downy, nuthatch, house finch, then flock of bluebirds, and finally the
tanager.  also saw a redheaded woodpecker and creeper there.

homeowner at "summer" invited us in.  their tanager appeared twice at the
kitchen window feeder.  we got her tanager feed recipe:

1 cup peanut butter
1 cup shortening
2 cups oatmeal
2 cups cornmeal
1 cup flour.

used as a "ball", or to plug holes drilled into logs.  also bought one of
her lovely oil paintings done on slate from an old barn, and birdseed from
their harness shop.

2) aerial show put on by harrier on Wecht Rd.  several kestrels also there.
around the corner on Eckard Rd were hundreds of starlings.  hawks ignored
them.

3) in Stark Co, also saw mockingbird, merlin, many kestrels, bluebirds.
plus white-throated and tree sparrows, up close redheaded woodpecker at
Stark Nature Center feeders.

4) in our yard (suburban Akron) we had both a grackle and a redwing. rare
to never in December for these yard birds.

misses:

fox sparrow, short-eared owl, snow bunting, longspur, horned lark.

- the Cohens

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