Is it me or has anyone else seen an abundance of cedar waxwings this year? I see them daily either in my yard or doing a fly by. Manon VanSchoyck Licking County www.ohionature.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "rob thorn" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 8:48 PM Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] BaltimoreOrioles gone? > They've been absent from my OBBA2 blocks for 1-2 weeks now. They've > usually been one of the first birds to leave their nesting areas in > central Ohio, and I can count on finding small groups of them in migrant > traps along water (such as Alum Lake and Darby Creek) by now. As a good > comparison, I'm visiting relatives in western Massachusetts right now and > spent the morning in ideal Baltimore Oriole habitat along the Connecticut > River. Plenty of E.Kingbirds, Yellow Warblers, Warbling VIreos, and large > flocks of swallows,.....but no Baltimore Orioles. They're already > largely gone from here. > > Rob Thorn > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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]