Yesterday shortly after noon, there was a male American Kestrel on wires along Case Road, a couple hundred yards east of Sawmill Road, at the south side of the OSU Farms/Don Scott Field in northwest Columbus. It's a shame Jim McCormac didn't add a little shopping to his day so as to make it a three-falcon celebration! Jim Glover Northwest Columbus http://www.jimgloverart.com Begin forwarded message: > From: Jim McCormac <[log in to unmask]> > Date: February 13, 2010 9:10:46 PM EST > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [Ohio-birds] Merlin - Columbus > Reply-To: Jim McCormac <[log in to unmask]> > > A quick early morning run through Green Lawn Cemetery, on the south > side of Columbus, produced a Merlin for Gabe Leidy, Cheryl Harner, > Bob Placier and I. The bird was hanging around the chapel building > near the center of the cemetery, and was extremely conspicuous. At > one point, it was perched prominently in the large tree just to the > north of the chapel, which is the former state champion Cucumber > Magnolia (a larger specimen has since been found). > > If you look for this Merlin and don't find it around the chapel or > pond, try the area immediately south of the bridge. More info on the > cemetery is here: http://www.ohiobirds.org/birdingsites/showsite.php?Site_ID=58 > > About 4:00 pm, I saw a Peregrine Falcon shoot low over State Rte. > 315 near Lane Avenue, making for a two-falcon day in Franklin > County. Sad thing about this is the American Kestrel is seemingly on > its way to becoming the hardest regularly occurring falcon to find > in Columbus. > > Jim > > Jim McCormac > Columbus, Ohio > Like Nature? http://jimmccormac.blogspot.com/ > Like Birds? http://www.ohiobirds.org/ > WATERFOWL SYMPOSIUM! http://www.ohiobirds.org/calendar/society_events/current/waterfowl.php > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 4415 (20090910) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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]