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| Reply To: | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 16 Oct 2006 15:27:14 EDT629_US-ASCII Today I followed-up with the trash clean-up project from Saturday at Hoover Reservoir. I went back into Areas M & N which weren't covered Saturday. I got to combine birding with the clean-up. Shorebirds were somewhat slow this afternoon. On the mudflats and sand spits between Area N and the boardwalk at Area M there were 9 Greater Yellowlegs, 10 Dunlin, 3 Semipalmated Plovers and many Killdeer but nothing else. There were several Common Terns skirting about, 23 Great Blue Herons clustered about, Double-crested Cormorants on a far sand spit and an adult Bald Eagle perched off Wiese Road. [...]42_16Oct200615:27: [log in to unmask] |
| Date: | Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:39:07 -0400 |
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As I was hurrying to my car in the parking lot of Columbus State Community College (the CSCC of the title line), I heard an unlikely chip and had a small bird zip by my ear into a small cluster of planted pines. Curiosity pulled me off schedule, and I went to look around the pines where I was greeted by a small flock of temperate migrants. Foraging among the shelter of the pines were 3 Palm Warblers, 3 Yellow-rumps, 1 Blackpoll, 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglets, 2 Golden-crowns, and 1 red-breasted Nuthatch. They kept flying out to nearby fruiting trees, then coming back to the pines. A closer look at the fruit trees, which had lush ground cover, added a few more kinglets, as well as 2 juncos, 8 White-throated sparrows, a Song sparrow, and a Swamp Sparrow. All of this within 10 minutes in an area no greater than a quarter acre (and much of it paved!) I can only assume that the cold weather produced similar groundings in many central Ohio areas.
Rob Thorn
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