This Franklin County park is at last showing its potential for migrants
this spring. Parks resource manager John Watts reported 200+ Wilson's
snipes spooked up by a cruising harrier yesterday, along with similar
numbers of green-winged teals and northern shovelers among flocks of
expected migrants and overall lots of dabbling waterfowl (with a
mysterious absence of wigeons). Pond levels are fairly high in the "old"
grassland, with greater yellowlegs prominent; levels are more variable
in the 800+ new acres, but cover (for human observers, anyway) is harder
to find. Chances are there won't be a dull moment there for a while. I
had a flight of 2000+ pectoral sandpipers there on the 13th last year,
but I wonder if the habitat will be perfect by that time this spring...
Bill Whan
Columbus

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