My favorite is when I hear a Phoebe around my house. Ipper Collens RTO ITLAPD Manufacturing Engineer H&H Engineered Molded Products 6230 Cochran Rd Solon, OH 44139 440.415.1814 W 440.520.5725 M -----Original Message----- From: Ohio birds [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Steve J. Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:11 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] First Birds Nah, its them silly Killdeer...calling out overhead in the middle of the night...and you can't see them...but you know that they are there. :-D rob thorn <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >I'll have to differ a bit with Bill on this one. I think that it's the >unpredictability of the habitat that defines a true harbinger. Sure >Pectorals and Louisiana Waterthrushes travel very far to get here, but >their habitats - mudflats and streams - are less impacted by weather >vagaries. I've seen waterthrushes singing and carrying on in a stream >that bisected deep snow. I doubt they had much of a problem finding >food. Swifts are a different thing; their aerial prowess is such that a >600 mile flight means little to them. If conditions are bad, they just >turn around and fly back! > >No, I'm more impressed by open grassland birds like Meadowlarks, Vesper >& Savannah Sparrows, since they arrive when their haunts can be either >open or totally snow-covered. Not only that, but fields tend to lag >woods in their seasonal phenology, so their first big flush of insects >is a long way off. The first singing Meadowlark or Vesper Sparrow is >truly an act of faith, faith that the worst of winter is over. That's >the sign of a true herald. > >______________________________________________________________________ > >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] -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________________________________ 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] ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________