Been out a few times to Crown City WMA and Anderson Meadows in hopes of Short-eared owls..  CCWMA has had a good number of Northern Harrier; (6) the first visit and (9) the next.  American Woodcock have made their presence known as well.

A few highlights of the New Year thus far:

01.02.22-  During the Huntington CBC, my group found what would be the first January record Blue-gray Gnatcatcher for Ohio & West Virginia in a small gulch along the Ohio River, just south of the Indian Guyan Boat Ramp.

Other highlights of the our count effort include:
(3) American Black Duck
(1) American Woodcock
(1) Sharp-shinned Hawk
(1) Peregrine Falcon
(4) Winter Wren
(3) Fox Sparrow
(1) Brown Thrasher (CW)


01.04.22- Today’s visit to Anderson Meadows did not disappoint.  Will attach the ebird checklist at the bottom.  Several American Woodcock were peenting and doing their aerial displays, had a flyover flock of Wilson’s Snipe, (1) Short-eared Owl all within 15 minutes of each other just before 6pm.  I would’ve liked to have gotten there a little earlier in the afternoon.  Sparrows numbers are usually great here, but only had 1 American Tree Sparrow, and on that I was unable to identify.  (13) Purple Finch were nice to see.  I got some decent shots, will upload them to ebird checklist in the coming days.

https://ebird.org/checklist/S100133225

I’m hoping to hit the January 100 this year.
Here’s to a great 2022 to all!

Good birding,
Bryan Smith
Proctorville, OH

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