This morning well before dawn, I met Mark Sabo, a local birder and
grouse and turkey hunter to search for Ruffed Grouse in Adams County
southeast of Peebles.  We succeeded between 7:00 and 8:00 am, and in the
process, just as the sky started to lighten, we found Whip-poor-will
singing and answering Mark's whistle.  I also found two Black and White
Warblers, an Ovenbird, which sang briefly and then shut up, and two
Louisiana Waterthrushes, an apparent pair on territory, Yellow-throated
Warbler and a Solitary Vireo, singing briefly.  There was also American
Woodcock displaying and peenting at this location.  It was a dreary
cloudy drizzly mourning.  Mark found the grouse down the hill from us
below the crest of the hill and was drumming so softly that at first I
wasn't sure I was really hearing a grouse instead of my own heartbeat.
This location was near a relatively recent clear cut area.  

 

It was a great spring morning in southern Ohio, even though the sun did
not shine.

Jay

 

Jay G. Lehman

Cincinnati, OH

[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]