Hi Folks, Today I drove by the Ohio Bird Sanctuary on Bowers Rd or Orweiler Rd north of 97 west of Lexington!!!! I had heard of it but had never been near it. I was training today for SAR TECH II Search and Rescue Technician II level that was at the boy scout camp. cheers, judojoe Joe D Phillips Columbus, Ohio -----Original Message----- From: Ohio birds [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of jen brumfield Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 5:58 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [Ohio-birds] Headlands LITTLE GULL, REDPOLL, migrants Hey folks - Local Patch Birding and Kirtland Bird Club were both out today hitting Headlands for waterbird migration and the reported Northern Saw-whet Owl found by Phil Chaon, yesterday (not relocated today). While waterfowl movement was very slow, we did turn up a surprising variety of species, including a single LITTLE GULL amongst hundreds of Bonaparte's Gulls flying west to east, a brief flyover COMMON REDPOLL, and the well-reported flock of 35+ Snow Buntings. Also seen were Rusty Blackbird, Winter Wren, and a pod of migrant kinglets, creepers, and White-throated Sparrows. LPB's group of 10 birded the paths, breakwall, and beach from 8:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. 43 species: Horned Grebe - 1 Common Loon - 1 Common Goldeneye - 2 Mallard - 6 Red-breasted Merganser - 40 (very very distant small flocks) Canada Goose - 2 Double-crested Cormorant - 100 Bonaparte's Gull - 1200 LITTLE GULL - 1 adult Ring-billed Gull - 45 Herring Gull - 50 Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Cooper's Hawk - 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 Northern Harrier - 1 Bald Eagle - 1 (nice adult flying low west to east) Rock Pigeon - 20 Mourning Dove - 2 Hairy Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker- 1 Blue Jay - 20 American Crow - 15 American Pipit - 1 Black-capped Chickadee - 13 Brown Creeper - 2 Winter Wren - 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 8 Hermit Thrush - 1 American Robin - 25 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Gray Catbird - 1 (KBC) Yellow-rumped Warbler - 4 American Tree Sparrow - 4 Song Sparrow - 2 Dark-eyed Junco - 3 White-throated Sparrow - 16 Snow Bunting - 35+ Northern Cardinal - 3 Rusty Blackbird - 11 House Finch - 15 American Goldfinch - 65 COMMON REDPOLL - 1 (thanks to Gabe Leidy) Best of birding jenJen Brumfield Akron, Ohio [log in to unmask] personal site: www.meadowhawkart.com _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts! Play Star Shuffle: the word scramble challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=starshuffle_wlmailtextlink_oct ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]