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]