I too have been fooled by Bluejays and mockingbirds sounding like Killdeer! KathyN Medina OH Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Katrina Heinzen <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Ohio birds <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 16:33:11 To: <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Katrina Heinzen <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Killdeer And not to take away from anyone's conclusions or research, simply adding another thought on the subject of hearing killdeer... I recently thought I heard one right over my head in Cleveland Heights and looked up to see a starling sitting on a wire doing a stunning imitation. :) Katrina Heinzen On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Linda Sekura <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thanks, Scott. Yes, it's a great book. I'm in awe of Larry Rosche & keep > his books in my car year-round. I had trouble learning birds until 4-5 > years ago when I started studying Larry's guidelines, hotspots, and tips. > > What surprised me was hearing the killdeer long after they've disappeared > from the city areas I frequent, including large expanses of NASA Lewis > Field, where they're ubiquitous spring thru fall - and gone after the > abundant > grasshoppers have laid their eggs and left us. To see them last week on > the mudflats at ONWR, sucking on crustaceans & insects, felt right. But > all > this was just gut feeling from my meager experiences. > > Linda > > > > > In a message dated 11/9/2010 8:19:59 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > > Friends, > The Killdeer are still with us. The authoratative Birds of the Cleveland > Region book lists Killdeer as "common to abundant" on the monthly > distribution chart for that species through the 2nd third of November, > then > uncommon to occasional in occurrence until March when they become > common/abundant once again. BOCR reflects data for the counties of Lake, > Cuyahoga, Lorain, Medina, Summit, Portage, and Geauga. You can purchase it > online at the Kirtland Bird Club (active in all seven of these counties, > and > beyond!) at http://www.kirtlandbirdclub.org/booksale.htm > > Scott > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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] > ______________________________________________________________________ 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]