Currently watching a Snowy Owl from Yutzys Market on Converse Huff Rd in Madison County. Also seen from the Miller Cabinet parking lot. We dipped on the Dun Road Snowy Owl. Greg & Leslie Cornett On Nov 28, 2018 12:05 AM, OHIO-BIRDS automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> wrote: There is 1 message totaling 92 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Lake Erie Bluffs, Lake County, 11/27- Pomarine Jaeger ______________________________________________________________________ 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] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 16:12:44 +0000 From: John Pogacnik <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Lake Erie Bluffs, Lake County, 11/27- Pomarine Jaeger The weather looked like it might be good for bird movement, so i birded Lake Erie Bluffs this morning from 7:00-10:20 this morning. I watched the lake for a couple hours and then walked the trails. The lake watch was decent with about 4,000 gulls flying by. Among them was a 2nd cycle GLAUCOUS GULL. Waterfowl were again fairly slow. Other than 700+ red-breasted mergansers, there were only 4 bufflehead and 4 scaup spp.. The best bird was an immature POMARINE JAEGER. The bird flew by low over the water heading west. There were a lot of songbirds in the area with about 417 robins counted. There were big flocks all through the park. Of note with the songbirds were a gray catbird and immature mockingbird in the same crab apple tree and a fox sparrow in another. I did walk to the south end of the property and saw very little activity in the dump area. Lake Erie Bluffs Metropark--Lane Rd., Lake, Ohio, US Nov 27, 2018 7:00 AM - 10:20 AM Protocol: Traveling 3.2 mile(s) Comments: Cloudy with occasional light flurries, 32-33 degrees, Winds Northwest 20-300 decreasing to 15-20 mph. Snow cover .5" by the lake to 2" at the south end. I watched the lake from 7:00-9:00 the wolked the trails from 9:00-10:20 35 species (+1 other taxa) Greater/Lesser Scaup 4 Bufflehead 4 Red-breasted Merganser 784 Pomarine Jaeger 1 The bird was observed flying low over the water and was heading west. It passed by a couple ring-billed gulls, but did not veer from its flight. It appeared to be the same size as them if not slight larger. The head and wings were a uniform dark brown. The rump appeared a little lighter. There was a small white flash in the upper and lower wings. It appeared to have the double flash in the underwing. The double flash, pale rump, and dark head made me believe Pomarine jaeger. The birds flight appeared more powerful than the ring-billed gulls. Ring-billed Gull 1771 Herring Gull 2314 Glaucous Gull 1 2nd winter bird Great Black-backed Gull 8 Common Loon 6 Northern Harrier 1 Flying low over the lake Cooper's Hawk 1 Bald Eagle 8 2 adults, 6 immatures Red-tailed Hawk 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 3 Blue Jay 5 Black-capped Chickadee 6 Tufted Titmouse 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Carolina Wren 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Eastern Bluebird 3 Hermit Thrush 1 American Robin 417 Gray Catbird 1 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 92 House Finch 11 American Goldfinch 5 American Tree Sparrow 4 Fox Sparrow 1 One bird feeding in a crab apple tree Dark-eyed Junco 3 White-throated Sparrow 19 Song Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 24 John Pogacnik ______________________________________________________________________ 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] ------------------------------ End of OHIO-BIRDS Digest - 26 Nov 2018 to 27 Nov 2018 (#2018-310) ***************************************************************** ______________________________________________________________________ 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]