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What wonderful weather for my spring break.
Sunday, I birded the Dawes Arboretum area:
Canada goose - XX
Wood duck - X
Gadwall - 1 m
Green-winged teal - XX
Mallard - XXX
American black duck - X
Blue-winged teal - 6
Northern shoveler - XX
Ring-necked duck - XX
Lesser scaup - X
Bufflehead - pr.
Hooded merganser - X
Black vulture - 1
Turkey vulture - XX
American kestrel - 1
Belted kingfisher - 2 (1 taking goldfish from the Japanese garden pond)
Red-bellied woodpecker
Downy woodpecker
Northern flicker
Pileated woodpecker
Eastern phoebe
Tree swallow
Golden-crowned kinglet
Eastern bluebird
Carolina chickadee
Tufted titmouse
White-breasted nuthatch
Blue jay
American crow
Yellow-rumped warbler
Eastern towhee
American tree sparrow - 2
Field sparrow - many singing - 2 seen
Swamp sparrow - many singing - 1 seen
Northern cardinal
Red-winged blackbird - XX
Eastern meadowlark - 1 singing
Brown-headed cowbird
This morning I took a friend on her first birding trip, to Black Hand Gorge.
It was a most enjoyable day, especially in view of my companion's enthusiasm
and the cooperation of several first-of-year birds (noted with asterisks).
Great blue heron
Canada goose
Mallard
Turkey vulture
Mourning dove
Belted kingfisher
Downy woodpecker hairy woodpecker
Eastern phoebe
Golden-crowned kinglet - XX (the trees were dripping with them!)
Ruby-crowned kinglet* - 1
Winter wren* - 1
American robin
Carolina chickadee
White-breasted nuthatch
Brown creeper
Blue jay
American crow
Louisiana waterthrush* - 2
Eastern towhee - many singing
Chipping sparrow* - many singing, 1 seen
Song sparrow - many singing
Dark-eyed junco - many
White-throated sparrow - heard only - what a lovely, haunting song!
Northern cardinal
Brown-headed cowbird
I don't always see hairy woodpeckers at BHG, but today there was a very
cooperative pair, who posed quite near a pair of downies, for comparison.
My friend declared the male hairy woodpecker as her very favorite bird of
the day. She thinks the downy was "behind the door" when bills were passed
out! I also took her to see the eagle's nest with my spotting scope, and
she was duly impressed, but what impressed her more was the heron rookery.
She also liked the golden-crowned kinglets, and got pretty good at spotting
them. She was also the first to spot the Louisiana waterthrushes and the
brown creeper. She's a musician, and was telling me what note each bird was
singing - "That's an A; that's an F", etc.
Margaret Bowman
Licking Co., OH
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