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Reply To: | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 12 Aug 2010 02:50:20 +0000613_iso-8859-1 Greetings - The Arctic Tern was easily found and observed at 6:30 p.m. this evening, the 11th, on the beach at Maumee Bay State Park. Many thanks to Kenn, and also to Greg for getting word out quickly via the listservs. A great bird. A few photos are up on my blog, giving the viewer a realistic semi-distant view of the bird (with good comparison of surrounding species)as it rested amidst the large grouping of Common, Forster's, and Caspian Terns, and Herring, Ring-billed, and Bonaparte's Gulls. When resting amidst the hoard, the Arctic preferred to centralize its location within the [...]47_12Aug201002:50: [log in to unmask] |
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You may have heard of Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Author's
Court". Well a recent visitor to Black Swamp Bird Observatory's Navarre
Marsh Breeding Bird Banding Station kind of threw me in a time warp (or some
other kind of warp). What would you think of a "Connecticut Warbler in
Ohio's July"? Visit BSBO's website www.bsbobird.org
<http://www.bsbobird.org/> to see a picture of our surprise visitor as well
as another "wild" bird of the summer of 2010. I wonder what the second bird
would have been called if it had been spotted from the Boardwalk.
Mark Shieldcastle
Research Director
Black Swamp Bird Observatory
13551 W SR 2
Oak Harbor, Ohio 43449
419-898-4070
<http://www.bsbobird.org/> www.bsbobird.org
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