What is the scoop on the black-tailed gull? I have been off list for a while and missed the action. Thanks much, Susan Ruth Marengo Northeast Cleveland Heights, Just South of America's North Coast On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:00 AM, OHIO-BIRDS automatic digest system < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > There are 11 messages totalling 421 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. More detailed info on the location of sightings > 2. Woodcock - Geauga Co > 3. Hawk in puddle in Berea > 4. Big Island Waterfowl > 5. Short-eared Owls at Big Island Wildlife Area (Ben Warner) > 6. Pete Dunne | BirdCallsRadio next guest > 7. American Coot in Bluffton (NW Ohio) > 8. Turkey Vulture - Portage County > 9. (no subject) > 10. Another American Coot > 11. Killdeer Plains (Wyandot Cty) & Big Island (Marion Cty) > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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] > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 00:03:47 -0500 > From: "Bruce M. Bowman" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: More detailed info on the location of sightings > > Date sent: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 07:08:05 -0800 > Send reply to: Paul Gardner <[log in to unmask]> > From: Paul Gardner <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] More detailed info on the > location of sightings > To: [log in to unmask] > > > Hello Don, > > > > Welcome to Ohio-birds! > > > > Yours is a perennial complaint. We'll try to do better, but history > > teaches that we will soon fall back into our old habits of referring to > > places as if everyone knows them. > > > > The places that are most frequently referred to without any discussion of > > their locations are the long-established birding destinations. If you go > > the the Ohio Ornithological Society website <www.ohiobirds.org> and pull > > down the "Birding Library" menu, you'll find a list of popular birding > > locales. > > > > One of the simplest and most effective methods for getting more > > information about a place is to google it. When I was doing the Ohio Rare > > Bird Alert, I was able to answer almost all my questions that way. > > > > Happy birding, > > Paul > > > > Paul Gardner > > Columbus, OH > > > > If the location of a birding site is not given in a post, it's often > helpful to know where the author of the post lives because the birding > site mentioned in the post is often/usually in the same area. This > information can be put in the "sig" (signature) of the email. Most email > programs provide a means for defining a sig that will be appended > automatically to every email. Paul's sig above is simply "Paul > Gardner/Columbus, OH". "Columbus, OH" will normally be enough, I'd > guess, to tell you the general area of a birding site that he has > mentioned in a post. An example of a sig with more detail about where > the author lives, and presumably birds, is mine, below. > > Bruce > ------------------------------------ > Bruce M. Bowman > Ann Arbor, Michigan USA > Washtenaw Co., southeast Michigan > [log in to unmask] > http://www.umich.edu/~bbowman/birds > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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] > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 08:10:41 -0500 > From: inga schmidt <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Woodcock - Geauga Co > > Went out in my yard at 7:15 this morning and heard the familiar song of > the woodcock. Not the peent call, but a little pattern of notes that it = > makes > while sitting on the ground. I don't know if that is it's song, or a = > call note, but > quite distinctive. > > At least two birds.....will trundle out in the fields tonight to see if = > there are more. > Frohring Meadows, just up the road from me, is a good spot to look for = > them. > > Perched in the dead elm, which is a favourite outlook for all the hawks, = > was a > Great Horned Owl surveying the same fields. I've been seeing one or two = > owls > for the last week, and have located at least one roosting tree with lots = > of whitewash > and bone filled pellets, but I haven't spotted a nest. > > If there is a nest, does anyone have any thoughts on how far away from = > it a night roost > might be? > > Inga Schmidt > Chagrin River Road, at the Geauga/Cuyahoga Co line.= > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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=3DOHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:31:09 GMT > From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Hawk in puddle in Berea > > A couple of days ago I saw a young Cooper's hawk wading around in a pud= > dle on our street in Berea. I could not be sure what he was doing. I s= > potted him on my way to my house. The car did not seem to bother him, s= > o I turned my car around to come closer and watch, but a big ole truck s= > pooked him away. We seem to have several Cooper's in the neighborhood a= > t the moment. Kathleen B.- Berea > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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=3DOHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 09:52:41 -0500 > From: "Steve J." <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Big Island Waterfowl > > Just a quick note that I stopped at the pool on SR95 that is just > before/after Herr Rd. There were 50 Trumpeter Swans all around the pool. > Along with them there were 50-100 Pintail and just as many Mallards. I also > spotted a pair of American Widgeon. > > Many, many waterfowl are flying around the ponds on 95. Worth a good look > with a scope. > > Later, > > Steve > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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] > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:51:17 -0500 > From: Gentleben <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Short-eared Owls at Big Island Wildlife Area (Ben Warner) > > My sister had never gotten out with me to see the Short-eared Owls, so I > th= > ought we'd try Big Island Wildlife area, and we found great success. > Around= > 5:30pm on Espyville Rd S. (TH 84)(this was in sight of the railroad track > = > along rt.95 to the north) just near a pull through type pull off for the > wi= > ldlife area, there was a male Short-ear up on a small tree posing nicely. > I= > got him in the scope and we saw several other raptors almost immediately. > = > Just behind him in a shrub was a Northern Harrier juvenile, in the > backgrou= > nd flying around were a couple more Northern Harriers, beyond that were > two= > Bald Eagles in a tree, and just to the north was another female > Short-eare= > d Owl. We watched the male short-ear chase the female harriers when they > fl= > ew too close which was good entertainment. Later on on our way back to > Dela= > ware Ohio, we watched these same owls flying and diving on prey items, and > = > they were joined by a third owl. We drove up to 95 and on to Prospect > Upper= > Sandusky Rd N. (rt 203) and pulled in to the drive by a shed there and > saw= > several other Short-eared Owls and a male Northern Harrier. As Steve > Jones= > noted, there are many waterfowl in the area, but we saw nothing > unexpected= > . It was a great time as usual, and very pleasant weather. Big Island is > lo= > cated in the general area just a few miles west of Marion, along rt. 95.=20 > Good Birding > - Ben Warne > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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=3DOHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 18:01:10 -0500 > From: Mardi Dickinson <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Pete Dunne | BirdCallsRadio next guest > > Birders et al, > > BirdCallsRadio next guest is Pete Dunne, Chief Communications Officer of > New Jersey Audubon and > Director of the Cape May Bird Observatory, Pete Dunne uses his talents and > energy to make > the natural world real for others. Coming up this Sunday from 1 to 2 p.m. > on 1490 WGCHAM > > http://birdcallsradio.com/2012/02/02/pete-dunne-is-next-guest-on-bird-calls-radio/ > and WORLDWIDE INTERNET STREAMING on Listen Live on BirdCallsRadio.com > > Cheers, > Mardi Dickinson > Norwalk, CT > http://kymrygroup.com/ > http://twitter.com/MardiWD > > Producer of > BirdCallsRadio Show > Blog: http://birdcallsradio.com/ > Follow us on Twitter:http://twitter.com/#!/BirdCallsRadio > Like us on Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/BirdCallsRadio > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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] > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 18:02:41 -0800 > From: Jean Cook <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: American Coot in Bluffton (NW Ohio) > > An American Coot has been in the Bluffton, Ohio area for the last couple > of= > weeks. =A0It hangs out with the mallards and Canadian geese. =A0With the > w= > armer weather it can be spotted feeding along the shoreline of Riley > Creek.= > =0A=0AJean Cook > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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=3DOHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 21:04:30 -0500 > From: Dave Hochadel <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Turkey Vulture - Portage County > > There was a single Turkey Vulture present today in Garrettsville, Portage > County, where there is a large summer roost right in town- and to think I > was surprised last year when the first arrived on 2-17. > > > > I also see that Woodcock were present in adjacent Geauga County today! I > don't feel so foolish now about searching for them the last 2 days in > Trumbull County. > > > > Dave Hochadel > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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] > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 21:30:16 -0500 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: (no subject) > > Linda and I managed to find free time this afternoon and headed up to > Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area in Wyandot County. The ponds were open but > the > variety of waterfowl was limited. Multitudes of Canada Geese and Mallards > everywhere but beyond that things were less plentiful. Pond 27 had Gadwall > (100+), a small number of American Wigeon (10), American Coots (50+), and > Tundra Swans (34). The pond along TH-108 had a couple of Trumpeter Swans > and > Tundra Swans (22). In a flooded depression in the farm field north of the > intersection of OH-294 and CH-115 we found a pair of Redheads. Raptors were > hit and miss. we found 5 Bald Eagles, 10 Northern Harriers, 8 Red-tailed > Hawks, a Cooper's Hawk and many American Kestrels. The field along TH-108 > yielded 20+ eastern Meadowlarks. The rest of the normal suspects were > scatter > about the area including American Tree Sparrows, Horned Larks and > Red-winged > Blackbirds. > > At Big Island Wildlife Area in Marion County there were various waterfowl > scattered in the ponds. Species included Trumpeter and Tundra Swans, > Pintail, American Wigeon, Ring-necked Duck, Black ducks, and American > Coots. > Raptors included many Northern Harriers (including Steve Jones missing > gray > males), Bald Eagles and Short-eared Owls. The Short-eareds put on a show > soaring over the fields, circling around us and one landed on a small > tree right > in front of us - Linda's favorite. > > Charlie B > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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] > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:59:47 -0500 > From: Lyn Boone <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Another American Coot > > We've also had an American coot (just one) here for a week or so on > Ebaugh Pond on the Denison University campus in Granville. Can't > remember having seen one here in Jan.-Feb. in previous years. > Lyn Boone > Granville > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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] > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 23:28:27 -0500 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Killdeer Plains (Wyandot Cty) & Big Island (Marion Cty) > > A thousand pardons - I forgot to enter the subject when I posted earlier. > > > Linda and I managed to find free time this afternoon and headed up to > Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area in Wyandot County. The ponds were open but > the > variety of waterfowl was limited. Multitudes of Canada Geese and Mallards > everywhere but beyond that things were less plentiful. Pond 27 had Gadwall > (100+), a small number of American Wigeon (10), American Coots (50+), and > Tundra Swans (34). The pond along TH-108 had a couple of Trumpeter Swans > and > Tundra Swans (22). In a flooded depression in the farm field north of the > intersection of OH-294 and CH-115 we found a pair of Redheads. Raptors were > hit and miss. we found 5 Bald Eagles, 10 Northern Harriers, 8 Red-tailed > Hawks, a Cooper's Hawk and many American Kestrels. The field along TH-108 > yielded 20+ eastern Meadowlarks. The rest of the normal suspects were > scatter > about the area including American Tree Sparrows, Horned Larks and > Red-winged > Blackbirds. > > At Big Island Wildlife Area in Marion County there were various waterfowl > scattered in the ponds. Species included Trumpeter and Tundra Swans, > Pintail, American Wigeon, Ring-necked Duck, Black ducks, and American > Coots. > Raptors included many Northern Harriers (including Steve Jones missing > gray > males), Bald Eagles and Short-eared Owls. The Short-eareds put on a show > soaring over the fields, circling around us and one landed on a small > tree right > in front of us - Linda's favorite. > > Charlie B > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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] > > ------------------------------ > > End of OHIO-BIRDS Digest - 1 Feb 2012 to 2 Feb 2012 (#2012-34) > ************************************************************** > ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. 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