I do recall a day after the center of low pressure from an Atlantic hurricane passed over northeast Ohio- maybe Fran? I don't have the time to look up the details at the moment but remember that overnight Mosquito Lake in Trumbull County suddenly held a Laughing Gull, Red-necked Grebe, 10 or so Red-necked Phalaropes, and 30+ Caspian Terns. Nothing super rare (or truly pelagic) but more than a coincidence I think. David Hochadel Trumbull County On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Bill Whan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On 10/1/2015 9:20 AM, Bill Whan wrote: > >> Eric--- >> Good question. I used to get excited about the storm-driven >> birds that might accompany hurricanes to Ohio and was repeatedly >> disappointed. If you think over the landbirds of Virginia and Maryland, >> the targets of this one are likely not to be a whole lot different >> from Ohio's. Sure, there are a few rarer species that take a narrow fall >> route along the Atlantic seaboard--Bicknell's thrush and whimbrel come >> to mind--but mostly we'll just get more blackpolls. As for saltwater >> birds, the chances are very slim: there is a LOT of dry land between >> here and there, and some mountainous terrain. Atlantic storms are most >> likely to push odd birds farthest west by way of the St. Lawrence >> seaway, and most of those don't reach Lake Erie. >> Better chances accompany big storms in the Gulf of Mexico, which >> can push odd petrels and shearwaters and terns up the Mississippi (and >> then occasionally the Ohio), and are usually the source of frigatebirds >> here; our sooty tern of a few years back is an example of the rarer >> ones. But these species are almost never seen during this season from >> Atlantic storms. >> I recommend Greg Miller's article "Gannet Invasion in the Great >> Lakes: the role of storms" [Ohio Cardinal Autumn 2002], with >> advice for the hopeful. Also in the Cardinal, I wrote a series of >> articles I called "Annals of Pelagic Birding in Ohio," which casts some >> light on this topic. The first, on black-capped petrels, was in the >> Winter 2002-3 issue; the second, on magnificent frigatebirds, was in the >> fall 2003 issue; the third treating the weirdest of them all, the >> invasion of thick-billed murres here in 1896, is in the Winter 2003-04 >> issue. Most Cardinal issues may be read online on the OOS site at >> http://www.ohiobirds.org/site/publications/cardinal/archiveissues.php , >> and I recommend these articles for the history involved. >> Hopes that just might be fulfilled would include highly pelagic >> birds like terns. Several species never touch land outside the breeding >> season, and are well adapted to constant flight at this time; this might >> make it easy for them to be swept west by winds, as they could easily be >> headed south at this time: roseate, gull-billed, Arctic, and sooty terns >> (see Donald Morse's article in the Cardinal,Summer 2005), maybe >> skimmers, but bear in mind that there are no October records of these >> species in Ohio! >> So, I admit to having harbored unrealistic Ohio expectations from >> Atlantic hurricanes, and I cannot offer you anything but wind and rain >> in the sky in the week to come. >> Bill Whan >> Cols >> >> >> On 9/30/2015 10:37 PM, Eric Elvert wrote: >> >>> So with Hurricane joaquin predicted to strengthen and make landfall >>> sometime around next Monday. My question to all the long time ohio >>> birders is. Do you think it has what it takes to push some good birds >>> into Ohio? And when should we start looking for some of these odd >>> ball birds. Thanks for any input. Bird On!!! >>> >>> Eric Elvert Dayton oh >>> >> > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. > Please consider joining our Society, at > www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. > > > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: > listserv.miamioh.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. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]