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Date: Friday, May 24, 2013
Location: Backyard - Sycamore Twp
Reporter: Mike Murphy
Other Birders:
R T Hummingbirds at our feeder for the past week but fewer tan past years.
Date: Friday, May 24, 2013
Location: Shawnee Lookout
Reporter: John Botz
Other Birders:
Notables:
cerulean warbler
summer tanager
ruby (black) - throated hummingbird
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Location: Western Hamilton Co.
Reporter: Brian Wulker
Other Birders:
Stopped at a few locations on my way out of work this afternoon.
Fernald Lodge Pond:
10 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 4 White-rumped Sandpipers (seen feeding and in flight), 1 Pectoral Sandpiper. There was also an Osprey briefly circling overhead, but it was chased off by nesting Red-winged Blackbirds. I've been told the pumps that feed this pond are being repaired, so the water level has dropped quite noticeably. Lots of mud in the back part, and there's even a small island forming in the middle today, but today was the first day there's been anything notable.
Lawrencburg Rd Gravel Pit north of US 50:
Hit this spot just as the storms were coming in... 3 Common Terns feeding over the water and 35 Semipalmated Sandpipers along the shore. Few Semipalmated Plovers and Spotted Sandpipers were the only other shorebirds.
Lost Bridge:
Nice little fallout here after the storms. 162 Semipalmated Sandpipers were all in the closest pool of the topsoil operation. Also a few Killdeer, Semipalmated Plovers, and Spotted Sandpipers. I tried to find something different in the flocks of semi sands, but had no luck. Body and bill shape and size all looked pretty uniform feeding and in flight. This is by far the most Semipalmated Sandpipers I have ever seen in this area. I also had another Osprey flyover the bridge, but it disappeared quickly. The river is low enough some gravel bars are starting to form.
Mt. Nebo Rd Gravel Pit:
1 Female Hooded Merganser
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Location: Felicity
Reporter: Kathi Hutton
Other Birders:
Bobwhite calling from the fields across from my house. Good to hear them here again.
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: C Emerson
Other Birders:
A scruffy looking Blue Grosbeak and a Yellow-billed Cuckoo near the bike trail bridge.
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Location: Back yard in Florence, Kentucky
Reporter: Mimi Morgan
Other Birders:
First house wrens of the season, about a month later than usual. And, no hummingbirds yet. Have a large grackle (maybe a boat-tailed) that's banded, but haven't been able to read the band.
Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: John Botz
Other Birders:
rose breasted grosbeak on the bike path just as you get to the bridge .
Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Location: Fernald
Reporter: Brian Wulker
Other Birders:
1 Northern Bobwhite called for a few minutes near the parking lot around 1 this afternoon.
Date: Monday, May 20, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: John Botz
Other Birders:
Usual suspects today but add a dickcissel and the yellow-billed cuckoo.
Date: Monday, May 20, 2013
Location: East Fork: Williamsburg wetlands and Bantam Rd
Reporter: Kathi Hutton
Other Birders:
no Connecticut Warbler today - I hope I was looking in the right spot.
I did have Common Yellowthroat, Prothonotary, Prairie, Blue-winged, Northern Parula, and Yellow-breasted Chat.
Both Baltimore and Orchard Orioles, male and female. Indigo Buntings by far the most numerous species.
4 flycatchers - Great Crested, Acadian, Eastern Wood-pewee and Eastern Kingbird.
heard a Northern Bobwhite, saw a CHUKAR on Bantam Rd. http://www.flickr.com/photos/78845083@N06/8758900436/
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2013
Location: Boone Cliffs Nature Preserve, Boone Co., KY
Reporter: Neill Cade
Other Birders: None
Boone Cliffs Highlights: Worm-eating and Canada Warbler, Northern Waterthrush, Broad-winged Hawk, Veery, and Black-billed Cuckoo.
Aurora Ferry Rd. Highlights: Henslow's Sparrow and Northern Bobwhite.
The better part of 100 species seen and heard at these two areas and in-between.
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2013
Location: Various
Reporter: Steve Bobonick
Other Birders: None
Bell's Vireo continues at Kilby Ponds.
Black-billed Cuckoo at Miami-Whitewater Wetlands, in wood lot near viewing platform.
Dickcissels have returned to Fernald, behind visitor center.
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2013
Location: East Fork-- Williamsburg Wetlands
Reporter: Wyatt Westerkamp
Other Birders:
Checked this area and several smaller trails near it for a couple hours this morning. I could hear many species but the thick leaves made it nearly impossible to spot most things. Highlights include a great, close-up view of a Connecticut Warbler feeding low near the lake, 4 Northern Bobwhites calling, 4 Worm-eating Warblers, 1 Blue-winged Warbler and a pair of Yellow-bellied Cuckoos. Full list below.
East Fork SP--Williamsburg Wetland, Clermont, US-OH
May 19, 2013 10:23 AM - 11:25 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.25 mile(s)
51 species
Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 2
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) 3
Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) 4
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) 2
Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) 3
Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) 2
Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) 8
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) 6
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) 1
Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) 1
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) 1
Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens) 2
Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus) 1
Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus) 3
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) 4
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 2
Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) 6
Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) 4
Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) 1
White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) 1
Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) 4
Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) 1
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 12
Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) 1
Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) 2
European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) 30
Worm-eating Warbler (Helmitheros vermivorum) 4
Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) 1
Blue-winged Warbler (Vermivora cyanoptera) 1
Connecticut Warbler (Oporornis agilis) 1
Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) 3
American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) 2
Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia) 1
Yellow-throated Warbler (Setophaga dominica) 2
Prairie Warbler (Setophaga discolor) 4
Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) 2
Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) 2
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) 3
Field Sparrow (Spizella pusilla) 6
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) 2
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 16
Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea) 8
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) 7
Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) 12
Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) 4
Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) 4
House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) 2
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) 3
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Date: Sunday, May 19, 2013
Location: Shawnee Lookout and Vicinity
Reporter: C Emerson
Other Birders:
A large Red-tailed Hawk in the open field by the Cleves Water Treatment Plant on Kilby road. A Nashville Warbler as well. Stopped along Lawrenceberg road mud flats just before the river. Had some shorebirds in my binos when the Canadain Geese with ducklings started to sound the alarm. A 4 year old Bald Eagle was swooping above harrasing the Geese. A minute later a younger Bald Eagle with a dark head flew into view and landed with the older juvenile Eagle. Both eagles were on the ground on the far side of the flats. Spotted the Blue Grosebeak along Mt. Nemo road. Heard Wild Turkeys as I pulled into the boat ramp at Shawnee. Great Crested Flycatcher, Prothonotary Warlber, Eastern Wood Pewee, White-breasted Nuthatch, House Wren, Red-bellied Woodpeck, Pileated Woodpecker, Gray Catbird, Baltimore Oriole, Solitary Sandpiper. Parking lot at Fort Trail, American Redstart, Red-eyed Vireo, Yellow-breasted Chat, Willow Flycatcher, Downy Woodpecker Parked at Tomahawk Knob, Common Yellowthroat, large Wild Turkey spotted in open area, Turkey Vulture, more Chats, female American Redstart Hiked the Bluejacket trail, more Redstarts, Wood Thrush heard in several spots along the trail, close up of Brown Thrasher on trail, could see yellow eyes, Field Sparrow Indigo Bunting and Eastern Towhees heard at all locations. Spotted several Least Sanpipers and Killdeer at the muds flats on Lawrenceberg road on the way home. A great day for birding.
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2013
Location: Crooked Run NP
Reporter: Kathi Hutton
Other Birders:
Today was one of those frustrating birding days for me - so much bird song that I had trouble sorting it all out, and so many leaves that I had trouble seeing many of the birds. Still, it was an enjoyable morning to be out and birding.
10 warblers: Northern Parula, Common Yellowthroat, Yellow, Yellow-throated, Prothonotary, Prairie, Blue-winged, Blackpoll, great looks at a singing Bay-breasted, and Yellow-breasted Chat.
Other highlights included my FOY Yellow-billed Cuckoo calling across the estuary, a very cooperative Red-eyed Vireo (plus several that refused to show themselves), and a White-eyed Vireo (heard only). Lots of very active Gray Catbirds, including three that were chasing each other through the trees.
In the meadow, I had a call that sounded very much like Henslow's Sparrow. This is a bird which has not been reported at Crooked Run before, and I couldn't locate it visually, so I hesitate to include it, but I wanted others who visit the preserve to listen for it.
Rescued a Green Frog from a cat; it was alive and not too badly damaged when I left it - I hope it will survive.
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: eric burkholder
Other Birders: Frank Frick, Jim Lundberg, Kirk Westendorf and others.
Frank found a SNOWY EGRET in the bean field. Amazingly no shorebirds. Male Gadwall and mystery duck were present. Got nice views of a Kentucky Warbler in the woods near the bean field. Also had a Blackburnian Warbler, male Blue Grosbeak, 3 Eastern Kingbirds, 4 Dickcissels, and 2 Willow Flycatchers.
Date: Saturday, May 18, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: Tyler Ficker
Other Birders: Cassidy
Just went to armleder for 30 minutes. Dad stayed back and Cassidy and I ran to the bean field. 39 speices!
Highlights:
- willow flycatcher
- alder flycatcher (life bird #312 for Cassidy!)
- white rumped sandpiper
- pectoral sandpiper
- bobolink
- yellow billed cuckoo
Date: Saturday, May 25, 2013
Location: Spring Valley
Reporter: Rachel Echols
Other Birders: Kayla Echols
Amazing morning at Spring Valley. Highlights included blue and rose-breasted grosbeaks, a very talkative willow flycatcher, both types of orioles and a Baltimore oriole nest, some yellow-breasted chats, two barred owls calling to each other in the distance, white- and red-eyed vireos, a double-crested cormorant, and an American redstart. Totaled about 50 species.
Trip List: Canada Goose, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Turkey Vulture, Red-shouldered Hawk, Killdeer, Mourning Dove, Barred Owl, Chimney Swift, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Willow Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, White-eyed Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, Blue Jay, American Crow, Tree Swallow, Barn Swallow, Carolina Chickadee, Carolina Wren, House Wren, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Eastern Bluebird, Wood Thrush, American Robin, Gray Catbird, Northern Mockingbird, European Starling, Yellow Warbler, American Redstart, Common Yellowthroat, Yellow-breasted Chat, Eastern Towhee, Chipping Sparrow, Field Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Blue Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, Red-winged Blackbird, Common Grackle, Brown-headed Cowbird, Orchard Oriole, Baltimore Oriole, House Finch, American Goldfinch, House Sparrow
Date: Saturday, May 18, 2013
Location: Oxbow, etc
Reporter: Kathi Hutton
Other Birders: Ann Oliver, 7 others
It was a very birdy morning. I tallied 57 species from 5 stops: Shawnee Lookout boat ramp, Mt. Nebo Road, Lost Bridge, the Oxbow, and Fernald. Ann had at least 3 others by ear that I missed.
Ann leads a lively walk. We had a mom with 3 kids, a married couple, and another woman with us. She and I kept busy pointing out songs and trying to get some uncooperative birds to show themselves.
Highlights included singing BLUE GROSBEAK perched on a wire along Mt. Nebo Rd, both orioles, 4 swallows (Tree, Barn, Cliff, and Northern Rough-winged), 6 flycatchers (E. Phoebe, E. Kingbird, Great-crested, Acadian, Willow, and Least), brilliant Prothonotary Warblers, 1 Great Egret, 2 Green Herons, baby Killdeer and a Semipalmated Plover for comparison, and Indigo Buntings at every stop.
I bailed out at 12:30pm, but the rest of the group looked like they could go all day.
Date: Saturday, May 18, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: John Lind
Other Birders:
Brown Thrasher, Great Egret, Blue Grosbeak, Savannah Sparrow, and juvenile male Orchard Oriole.
Date: Saturday, May 18, 2013
Location: Kelley Nature Preserve
Reporter: C Emerson
Other Birders:
A close view of a Connecticut Warbler. Palm Warlber, Eastern Towhee, Baltimore Oriole, House Wren, Pileated Woodpecker heard, Northern Flicker, Downy Woodpecker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Cardinal, Canada Goose, Mallard, Indigo Bunting, American Goldfinch
Date: Friday, May 17, 2013
Location: Spring Grove Cemetery
Reporter: David Brinkman
Other Birders:
Time in field: 2:55 p.m. - 3:47 p.m.
Today just before the storm rolled in I birded sections 95 and 74 looking for the recently reported White-winged Crossbills, but found none. Instead I found 13+ Pine Siskins, 70+ Cedar Waxwings (one pair mate-feeding), and 19 mostly high-flying but some lower flying Common Nighthawks. I was first alerted to the nighthawks when I heard the peent call, and then found the first 3 birds up in the clouds, whereupon I heard the characteristic boom sound of courtship. A little while later, while looking for the crossbills, I looked up to discover 16 more nighthawks flying over, most of them circling with the swifts and swallows feeding on insects.
Date: Friday, May 17, 2013
Location: Hueston Woods State Park below Acton Lake Dam
Reporter: Sam Fitton
Other Birders:
Highlights this morning were singing Connecticut Warbler and Philadelphia Vireo.
Date: Friday, May 17, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: William Hull
Other Birders:
2 Sanderlings at flooded field this AM. Overall shorebird numbers much lower than Weds.
Gotta love the smell of rotting carp in the morning. Both vultures were feeding on the dead carp.
Cedar Waxwing numbers are getting big. I estimated 300 in the treeline around me while I was scoping shorebirds but could easily have been more.
A park worker warned me that someone has been stealing from cars recently by breaking windows.
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013
Location: East Fork south beach
Reporter: Donald Morse Jr.
Other Birders:
Of note: 1 Black Tern, 10 Forster's Terns. 1 Osprey.
The black tern was close to the shore for a little while until the rowers got close, and a near collision between the bird and one of the rowing teams spooked the bird which was perched on a ball. I could not relocate it after it flew east.
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: C Emerson
Other Birders:
This morning along the bike trail to the bridge was the Black-billed Cuckoo along with several Cedar Waxwings in small trees close to trail. Tennessee Warbler, Baltimore Oriole, Common Grackle, House and Carolina Wren, Indigo Bunting, Tufted Titmouse, Cliff Swallow, and heard a Yellow-throated Vireo.
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: Stanley Hedeen
Other Birders:
Behind the shorebirds, ducks, and cricket frogs in the flooded field, two male turkey slowly foraged their way across the meadow. The red-headed woodpecker is still present in the treeline.
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Location: Lost Bridge
Reporter: Jay Stenger
Other Birders:
It was quite a good day for migrant shorebirds in the lower Great Miami River Valley today. The highlight was a small flock of Red Knots that I saw between 11:45 AM and 12:15 PM. But unfortunately they had left by 2:00 PM. See more details on this sighting below.
There were 4 Black-bellied Plovers on the shallow Martin-Marietta pond, located just west of Lost Bridge this morning at 8:45 AM but little else. When I returned at 11:00 AM, the Black-bellied Plovers had apparently left, but were replaced with a variety of other species. The shorebirds present from 11:00 through 12:15 included Red Knots 9 (see details below) Sanderlings 5, Short-billed Dowitchers 15, Semipalmated Plovers 28, Semipalmated Sandpipers 5, Least Sandpipers 10, Greater Yellowlegs 3, Lesser Yellowlegs 8, Spotted Sandpipers 2, Solitary Sandpipers 2 and a few Killdeer. An immature Bald Eagle made an appearance and disrupted the sandpiper party for several minutes. After his departure things settled down again, but I never did relocate the dowitchers. About 40 Cliff Swallows were continuously gleaning mud from the edge of the pond, presumably for their nests under Lost Bridge.
After my visit I immediately called Paul Wharton and Joe Bens about the Red Knots and they went down around 2:00 PM to have a look. Joe told me the only birds that remained at that time were the Semipalmated Plovers and Spotted Sandpipers.
So during four separate visits (8:45, 11:00, 11:45, and 2:00) to the Lost Bridge pond today there was an obvious turnover of species, which suggests a lot of birds were on the move today.
About the Red Knots. First off, I realize how rare and unprecedented this sighting is. In fact Red Knots are considered accidental migrants in Ohio (and Indiana) away from the Great Lakes, especially during spring migration. I think all of our local records are from the fall. They are usually seen as individual birds, but small flocks are occasionally reported away from Lake Erie. Because of the extraordinary nature of this sighting, I feel I should include some supporting details in this report.
At the Lost Bridge pond today I noticed a small group (9) of fairly large sandpipers grouped tightly together facing into the wind on a spit at the very back of the pond. The steady 25 mph wind and 250 yard distance didn’t make for the best viewing (scope shake). A bulldozer was working along the back of the pond the entire time I was there, putting considerable dust in the air.
My immediate thought was more Sanderlings (having seen 5 earlier relatively close), as I was picking up shades of red/rufous color on some of the birds necks and breasts. But these birds were considerably larger than Sanderlings. I was able to get a good size comparison because there were several Semipalmated Plovers standing just a few feet to their left. These birds were longer than the Semipalmated Plovers, but more importantly, they dwarfed them from a body mass perspective. Their body mass was easily 2 or 3 x larger than the Semipalmated Plovers. For the most part the upperparts were dark grayish and scalloped, the primaries dark, the breasts a lighter gray and the bellies whitish. Most of the birds I could see clearly seemed to have some reddish or rufous tones in the breast and/or neck area. They had round, plump bodies and a short or no- necked appearance. The legs were dark and the bills were black, of medium-length, stout and tapered. For the 30 minutes I watched them they remained hunkered down facing into the wind. At this point I felt they were Red Knots, but I also thought that Red Knots would be in full adult breeding plumage by mid-May. When I got home I called Paul Wharton & Joe Bens and they went looking for them. When they got to Lost Bridge at 2:00 PM the birds had apparently left. I’ve since read several resources and found the following passage on “Birds of North America”:
<<< One-year-old knots, which replace few feathers, appear as winter, Basic-plumaged birds during their first boreal spring and summer (Belton 1984, Blanco et al. 1992) but typically have highly worn and frayed primaries. Individuals that molt more extensively show rufous feathering below (Paulson 1993) but are generally intermediate in appearance between Definitive Basic and Definitive Alternate plumages (Cramp and Simmons 1983).">>>
So if I understand this correctly, immature birds entering into their first spring are likely to still be in their immature plumage or some type of intermediate plumage. Based on this I believe this flock was comprised solely of immature/1st year (hatched last summer) Red Knots.
On a hypothetical note, I could see where a flock of immature birds (birds which have never made a northward migration before) might end up a bit off course.
Sorry, no photos.
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Location: Lost Bridge & Shawnee Lookout
Reporter: Joe Kappa
Other Birders:
SL at the bottom of the boat ramp had 1 G Yellowlegs, 2 Pectoral Sandpipers & 1 Solitary SP.
Lost Bridge had 28 Semipalmated Plovers, 5 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, several peeps & Spotted Sandpipers.
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: William Hull
Other Birders: Brian Wulker for part of visit
Visited Armleder mid morning to check on shorebirds in adjacent flooded field.
Highlites:
Semipalmated Plover 30 May have been more hidden in vegetation
Killdeer 2
Spotted Sandpiper 6
Solitary Sandpiper 8
Lesser Yellowlegs 2
Least Sandpiper 60 May have been more hidden in vegetation; did not see any Semi Sand mixed in.
White-rumped Sandpiper 1
Pectoral Sandpiper 2
Short-billed Dowitcher 28 Dropped in about 11AM.
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Common Nighthawk 1
Red-headed Woodpecker 1 Working dead snags near flooded field. Present entire visit.
Cedar Waxwing 75 Number may be conservative
Cerulean Warbler 1
Dickcissel 3
Common Grackle 4
Lot of other migrants and residents were present.
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: C Emerson
Other Birders:
Walked the bike trail across the bridge and spotted a pair of Cedar Waxwings near the bridge. Eastern Kingbird, Tennesseee Warbler, Summer Tananger, Indigo Bunting, Field Sparrow, Gray Catbird, Viewed what appeared to be a Heron in flight based on shape but the bird was a dark to black color, headed towards the Little Miami river, not a GB.
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Location: Magrish
Reporter: mark bogosian
Other Birders:
Had a good close-up look at a Canada Warbler in the bushes along the dike this morning.
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Location: Crooked Run State Nature Preserve adjacent to Chilo Lock 34 Park
Reporter: Suzanne Clingman
Other Birders:
Red-headed Woodpecker in the yard this morning. We got one at Meldahl Dam on Friday during birdathon but this is the first of spring here. Two or three Blockpolls in the yard they are also first of spring here for me.
Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Location: Back yard in Florence, Kentucky
Reporter: Mimi Morgan
Other Birders:
8 Pine Siskins at niger feeder.
Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Location: Lost Bridge, Oxbow, Kilby Ponds
Reporter: Ann Oliver
Other Birders:
Good day of birding in SW Ohio. Had several warblers in a 70 acre city park behind our house including warblers (Black-throated Green, Tennessee, Blackburnian, American Redstart, Bay-breasted, Nashville, Magnolia, Yellow-rumped, Yellow-throated), vireos (Red-eyed and Warbling), flycatchers (Least and Great Crested), thrush (singing Swainson's) and raptors (Red-shouldered and Red-tailed). Then surveyed some Cincinnati westside birding locations and found two Caspian Terns (Lost Bridge gravel pit operation), Prothonotary Warblers (Oxbow), and Blue Grosbeak, American Kestrel, and Bell's Vireo (heard) at Kilby Ponds....
Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Location: Armleder Magrish
Reporter: James Lundberg
Other Birders:
Wonderful display of four swallow species and Chim. swifts over the water of the scraped field by Armleder. Well worth the price of admission. Shorebirds as noted by other birders is a plus...
Calling Alder Flycatycher at Magrish. Not many warbler species. Maybe tomorrow will be better.
Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Location: Fernald
Reporter: Allan Claybon
Other Birders:
26 SB Dowitchers at observ deck Lodge Pond 4:10 pm
Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Location: Lake Barkley, KY
Reporter: Jeff Foster
Other Birders: My son and my Mom
Saw 18 American White Pelicans on the down stream side of the dam at Lake Barkley! That was a very pleasant surprise!
Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: William Hull
Other Birders:
Stopped on way to work to check for shorebirds back in the flooded field. There was a single White-rumped Sandpiper mixed in with the Least, Solitary, and Spotted Sandpipers, Semipalmated Plover and Lesser Yellowlegs.
I have seen / heard a number of reports of an American Black Duck over the past few weeks. I believe these reports may be of a bird I suspect to be a melanistic Mallard that I have been watching for the past few weeks. This is the only dark duck I have seen during visits since I last saw two Am. Black Duck in mid April.
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/8zqwLB6AD2dp5KBEVUyHzdMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
I guess it could also be some domestic or hybird.
Date: Saturday, May 25, 2013
Location: Spring Valley
Reporter: Rachel Echols
Other Birders: Linda Parkes
Trip List: Wood Duck, Great Blue Heron, Green Heron, Turkey Vulture, Red-shouldered Hawk, Mourning Dove, Chimney Swift, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, White-eyed Vireo, Blue Jay, American Crow, Tree Swallow, Barn Swallow, Carolina Chickadee, Carolina Wren, House Wren, Marsh Wren, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Eastern Bluebird, American Robin, Gray Catbird, Yellow Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Eastern Towhee, Chipping Sparrow, Field Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Northern Cardinal, Red-winged Blackbird, Brown-headed Cowbird, Baltimore Oriole, American Goldfinch
Date: Monday, May 13, 2013
Location: Shawnee Lookout and Fernald
Reporter: C Emerson
Other Birders:
First stop: Mt. Nebo road pit, Yellow Warbler, Indigo Bunting, Northern rough-winged Swallow, Red-winged Blackbird, heard a Black-billed Cuckoo, Spotted Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs, Killdeer, Barn Swallow, Orchard Oriole, Song Sparrow Boat Ramp: Prothonotary Warbler, Eastern Wood Peewee, Baltimore Oriole, Pileated Woodpecker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, House Wren, Eastern Bluebird, Eastern Phoebe, Tufted Titmouse, Tree Sparrow Shawnee Lookout area: Eastern Towhee, Blue Gray Gnatcatcher, White-eyed Vireo, Orchard Oriole, Summer and Scarlet Tananger, heard a White-and-Black Warbler, Kentucky Warlbler, Cardinal, American Redstart, Northern Parula, Yellow-breasted Chat, Northern Mockingbird, American Goldfinch, House Finch, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Chipping Sparrow, Brown-headed Cowbird, European Starling, Turkey Vulture, Northern Flicker Fernald: Watched a Green Heron catch a fish at the Lodge Pond. It took the bird 6 or 7 gulps to swallow the fish which gave me good looks at the Heron, the tail on the fish was still wiggling as he swallowed it. Mute Swan, Blue-winged Teal, Great Blue Heron, Mallard, Lesser Yellowlegs, Short-billed Dowitcher, Pectoral Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, Red-tailed Hawk, Common Yellowthroat, a second Green Heron near water closer to the visitor center, Eastern Meadowlark, Eastern Kingbird, Least Flycatcher, Gray Catbird
Date: Monday, May 13, 2013
Location: Ellis Wetlands
Reporter: Dino Costanzo
Other Birders:
Wilson's Pharalope and Ruddy Turnstone sighted at 9 AM.
Date: Saturday, May 11, 2013
Location: Birdathon total
Reporter: David Brinkman
Other Birders: Don Morse, Jr.
P.S. - we finished with 132 species.
Date: Sunday, May 12, 2013
Location: Spring Valley, Sugarcreek Metropark
Reporter: Sam Corbo
Other Birders:
Got out for a few hours today. Pretty decent day even if cold. I've not had Marsh Wren in two stops there the last month or so, which seems surprising. Highlights
Spring Valley:
Virginia Rail, Sora
Barred Owl
Flyover Osprey and Bald Eagle
Yellow-breasted Chat (3)
Sugarcreek Metropark (15 min W of Spring Valley):
Cerulean (3) and Kentucky (4) Warblers on territory
Acadian Flycatcher
Date: Friday, May 10, 2013
Location: Bird-a-thon
Reporter: David Brinkman
Other Birders: Don Morse, Jr.
Some of the highlights of our scouting efforts on the birdathon (of birds we didn't get when it counted) include the following:
Campbell Lakes Preserve (Hamilton Co.) - Alder Flycatcher (singing and viewed in steady rain!) and a singing male Blue Grosbeak.
Kilby Rd. Gravel Pits (Hamilton Co.) - 2 Bell's Vireos. (We didn't get these when it counted because we only had 6 minutes before we had to be at the tally, according to the ETA on the GPS). We had 3 Common Loons while scouting, but only 1 when it counted. This would be the last new species of the birdathon for us.
My strategy back-fired on us, since we covered 10 counties in Ohio and did way too much driving. Ten counties were: Montgomery, Greene, Warren, Clermont, Brown, Adams, Highland, Clinton, Butler and Hamilton.
Our plan was to get either Upland Sandpiper or Lark Sparrow as the first bird depending on finding either while scouting. We checked the Middletown location at Renaissance Blvd. where a pair of Lark Sparrows were reported this year but didn't find them. So we decided to try to find Upland Sandpipers at three locations (Dayton Airport west and north sides, and Great Miami Mitigation Bank). We were en route to Great Miami Mitigation Bank when 5:00 was approaching very fast. According to the GPS we would arrive around 5:04. So we knew we had to start counting birds while driving: robin, house sparrow, starling ... Not really exciting first birds. We arrived at Great Miami Mitigation Bank (Montgomery Co.) with 14 species already under our belt while en route. Immediately when we got out of the car we heard Grasshopper Sparrows calling and quickly got visuals on several. There must have been at least 10 birds. We added several other species, including our only Rose-breasted Grosbeak, but missed our main target bird, Upland Sandpiper.
On to Englewood (Montgomery Co.) which is very close to Dayton Airport. The highlight there was a female Gadwall. We tried Dayton Airport again when it counted to find Uplands, but got skunked again. However, another target bird, Savannah Sparrow, made an appearance. Then we went to Oaks Quarry Park (Greene Co.) to try for Lark Sparrows there. We were running out of daylight and had to work fast to get to our other locations by dusk. Only new birds here were Prairie Warbler and White-crowned Sparrow. Don spotted a Wild Turkey en route to Caesar's Creek (Warren Co.). At the beach there we swept the gulls as we had several Ring-billeds as well as one Bonaparte's and two Herring Gulls on the beach. Also there were two Caspian Terns there. We checked Harveysburg Rd. for anything else we might find, including Red-headed Woodpeckers, but didn't find anything new. We left Harveysburg Rd. and were followed by the cop who had been sitting there on patrol. I turned right onto route 73 on our way to check Furnas-Olgesby Rd. for Ring-necked Pheasant and then on to Spring Valley to listen for woodcocks, rails and bitterns by dusk. However, the cop decided to pull us over for "rolling through the stop sign" at Harveysburg Rd. and 73. Therefore we missed all of the birds we hoped to get at dusk. The good thing was he let us on our way after only about 10 minutes. Everything checked out fine. Well, of course it did. My fingerprints are on file with the FBI and Ohio BCII in good standing because I'm a substitute teacher and have to have a background check done once a year.
Anyway, Don's ability to call in owls in the rain is phenomenal. We had a Barred Owl hooting at Spring Valley, and we watched it while it called. After a good meal at IHop in Milford and rest from driving, we drove to East Fork and Don again did his magic, calling in a gray-phased Eastern Screech-Owl in the rain. We would later get Barn Owl and Bald Eagle in Higginsport using the five minute nest rule (these nestings were confirmed earlier in the day while scouting).
We made it to Adams county at 2:50 a.m. Saturday to spend the night in the car, then began driving again at 5 a.m. eventually finding several Whip-Poor-Wills but no Chuck-will's-widows along Brush Run Rd. We would frustratingly miss Ruffed Grouse too. We did find Worm-eating Warbler in the morning at Abner Hollow, but the dawn chorus wasn't what I had hoped it would be. Most of the other species we found in Adams county were expected birds. We only found 1 of 3 target birds that we sought there.
When we scouted in Highland county on Friday, we hit the jackpot on Henslow's Sparrows at Sams Rd. and route 753 (east side of Rocky Fork State Park) with at least 8 birds singing, if not more. We were able to scope one of them. We went back to this location when it counted on Saturday and were able to hear them as soon as we pulled onto Sams Rd., a gravel road with virtually no traffic! In fact, we almost had a sweep of the sparrows, had it not been for those pesky Lark Sparrows that we could not find. Rocky Fork had 10 or more Forster's Terns and 2 Caspian Terns. Other targets included Great Egret and waterfowl - there were Ruddy Duck, 2 Lesser Scaup and 1 female Bufflehead on the water there. We also had a Greater Yellowlegs here.
We tried for Loggerhead Shrike at a location in Highland county where e-bird shows them appearing in July of last year, but did not find them.
We got our only Vesper Sparrow on New Vienna Rd. in Clinton county.
Since we missed our marsh birds on Friday, we decided to go back to Spring Valley on Saturday, but got skunked on them again. We did, however, pick up Sedge Wren, Swamp Sparrow and Lincoln's Sparrow there.
We had followed up on a pre-birdathon tip about shorebirds at VOA (Butler Co.) and pulled out Least Sandpiper, Semipalmated Plover, Lesser Yellowlegs, Pectoral Sandpiper, Bobolink and Willow Flycatcher.
At Ellis Lake we picked up Solitary Sandpiper, Pied-billed Grebe and Bank Swallow (the only swallow we still needed at that time, late Saturday afternoon).
I had confirmed Black-crowned Night-Heron at the Winton Woods colony while scouting so we went there for the nest rule and also picked up Red-shouldered Hawk. We would add Cooper's Hawk flying over the car on Blue Rock Rd. for one last try for Lark Sparrow. Skunked again on this species, but I noticed a red-tailed hawk soaring with the turkey vultures and then picked up a smaller hawk as well, a Broad-winged! Our last stop before having to go to the tally was Kilby Rd. Gravel Pits. According to the GPS we only had 6 minutes before we had to be at the tally, not enough time to walk to the trees where the Bell's Vireos are so we could be able to hear them over the heavy traffic on Kilby Rd. Our last bird before the tally was Common Loon on the lake at Kilby Rd. Gravel Pits. We simply ran out of time to try Fernald for the Mute Swan and drive through Shawnee Lookout to pick up Cerulean Warbler and American Redstart, which was part of the plan. I would also be unable to confirm Peregrine Falcon at the nest box at Miami Fort Station on two scouting attempts. However, last Tuesday I did have 2 singing Golden-winged Warblers there.
Next year we will not do so much driving. Ten counties is way too much!!!
Date: Sunday, May 12, 2013
Location: Clifton Backyard
Reporter: Lori Brumbaugh
Other Birders:
Finally a little action this morning: Redstart, Tennessee, Chestnut-sided, Cape May, Yellow-rumped, Blackpoll and a Blue-headed Vireo.
As I tried to photograph the beautiful Cape May from the blind, a button buck stuck its nose in front of the lens trying to figure out what was in the blind!
Date: Sunday, May 12, 2013
Location: Bird-A-Thon
Reporter: Tyler Ficker
Other Birders: Cassidy Ficker, Ethan Rising, Josh Rising
Thanks to my awesome bird-a-thon team of all age 18 and under birders, we were able to see 130 species!
The highlights were:
Both Cuckoos - Armleder
Barn Owl - Higginsport
Hermit Thrush - Boone County Cliff
Orange-Crowened Warbler - Rising's Home
Cape May Warbler - Armleder
Cerulean Warbler - Boone County Cliff
Worm-Eating Warbler - Armleder
Kentucky Warbler - Boone County and Spring Grove
Hooded Warbler - Spring Grove
Canada Warbler - Boone County
Vesper Sparrow - Armleder
Bobolink - Armleder
White-Winged Crossbill - Spring Grove
*For any who would like to know, the crossbills were in section 95. 2 males 2 females. Mr. Bill McGill found them for us.
Date: Sunday, May 12, 2013
Location: VOA
Reporter: Tyler Ficker
Other Birders: Mom, Cassidy, Dad
Went to VOA after visiting my grandparents. On one of the small ponds near the road I had several spotted and solitary sandpipers. Also, 1 short billed dowitcher. I was lucky enough to find 1 black tern there and 1 horned grebe in breeding plumage!
Date: Sunday, May 12, 2013
Location: Crooked Run NP
Reporter: Kathi Hutton
Other Birders:
Good birding this morning - as usual, some of the best finds were "heard onlys": Blackburnian and Blackpoll Warbler, Black-billed Cuckoo. Also had Yellow and Prothonotary Warblers, Common Yellowthroat, Northern Parula; White-eyed, Red-eyed and Warbling Vireo; my FOY Green Heron (finally) and the usual suspects.
Date: Sunday, May 12, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: Linnett Leisner
Other Birders:
Pair of bald eagles (mature and immature)flew over Armleder this morning, also seen were black-billed cuckoo, male and female blue grosbeaks, lots of orchard orioles, baltimore oriole, dicksissel, meadowlark, lots of indigo buntings, Tennessee warbler
Date: Saturday, May 11, 2013
Location: Oxbow, Lawrenceburg
Reporter: Jon Seymour
Other Birders: none
At the end of the Birdathon I walked out to view the flood pool south of Mercer Pond. I found about a dozen Black-bellied Plover, 25 Lesser Yellow-legs, several Pectoral Sandpipers, and 3 Ruddy Turnstones. A flock of 30 Caspian Terns with a few Forester's Terns, and Two Great Egrets. Throw in a Horned Lark and it was a perfect finish to the Birdathon.
Date: Sunday, May 12, 2013
Location: VOA
Reporter: Allan Claybon
Other Birders:
Approx 40 shorebirds in pool area along road to dog park. Mostly Dowitchers, Dunlin & Least; Pectoral, Semipalmated Plovers, Lesser YL. Very close to road. 2:30 PM Bobolinks along road to upper meadow.
Date: Sunday, May 12, 2013
Location: Spring Grove
Reporter: C Emerson
Other Birders:
Highlights include Cape May Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Warbling Vireos galore, Swainson's Thrush, Eastern Wood Pewee, Baltimore Oriole, Yellow-throated Warbler, Blue Gray Gnatcatcher, Mute Swan, Pine Siskin, Purple Finch, American Goldfinch, Chipping Sparrow, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Brown-headed Cowbird, Northern rough-winged Swallow, Barn Swallow, Turkey Vulture, Eastern Phoebe, Bluejay, Cardinal, Carolina Chickadee, Red-winged Blackbird, Common Grackle, Mourning Dove, White-breasted Nuthatch, Gray Catbird A beautiful morning at Spring Grove, nice weather for birding.
Date: Sunday, May 12, 2013
Location: Marydale Erlanger Ky.
Reporter: Ken Blick
Other Birders: Mary Kay Foltz
Blue winged Teal, mallard, Great Egret, yellow warbler, common yellowthroat, Baltimore oriole, orchard oriole, warbling virio, phoebe, tree swallow
Date: Saturday, May 25, 2013
Location: Magrish Riverlands park
Reporter: James Lundberg
Other Birders:
the birding seems to have dropped off at Magrish over the past few years, but, this morning it was excellent. Difficult to see birds on the paths because of the overgrown Bush Honeysuckle, I birded the parking lot and area inside the berms. In addition to what I saw, other birders had a good look at a Black-throated Blue.
Trip List: Wood Duck 3, Great Blue Heron 2, Mourning Dove 3, Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1, Black-billed Cuckoo 2, Red-bellied Woodpecker 2, Warbling Vireo 1, Blue Jay 3, Carolina Chickadee 3, Carolina Wren 3, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4, American Robin 4, European Starling 4, Cedar Waxwing 5, Blue-winged Warbler 1, Tennessee Warbler 5, Northern Parula 1, Cape May Warbler 2, Blackburnian Warbler 1, Palm Warbler 2, American Redstart 3, Prothonotary Warbler 1, Northern Waterthrush 1, Common Yellowthroat 2, Scarlet Tanager 1, White-throated Sparrow 2, Northern Cardinal 2, Indigo Bunting 5, Brown-headed Cowbird 7, Baltimore Oriole 3
Date: Sunday, May 12, 2013
Location: Lost Bridge
Reporter: Dino Costanzo
Other Birders:
There are several Black Bellied Plovers in the back part of flooded field off to the right before the Bridge 9:20 AM.
Date: Sunday, May 12, 2013
Location: Armleder Bean Field
Reporter: Dino Costanzo
Other Birders: Rick Buschmeier
Besides the Ruddy Turnstone their were over 50 peeps of at least 3 different varieties as well as Solitary, Spotted, both Yellowlegs. A scope will be needed to identify peeps. I add this, because according to past records this seems like a huge number of peeps. None were White Rumped. All were still there at 5:30 PM. Saturday.
Date: Saturday, May 11, 2013
Location: Embshoff Woods
Reporter: Linda Waugh
Other Birders: Bob Waugh
Eastern Kingbird
Goldfinch
Cedar Waxwings (2)
Chipping Sparrow
American Robins
Cardinals
Blue-grey Gnat Catcher
Northern Flicker
Date: Saturday, May 11, 2013
Location: Spring Grove C.
Reporter: Maddie Varias
Other Birders: mom
Oops! I forgot to add the female Summer Tanager.
Date: Saturday, May 11, 2013
Location: Spring Grove C.
Reporter: Maddie Varias
Other Birders: mom
Canada Goose
Cooper's Hawk
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Chimney Swift
Barn Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Tree Swallow
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Tennessee Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Robin
Swainson's Thrush
Wood Thrush- adult singing
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Blue Jay
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Red-winged Blackbird
Indigo Bunting
Northern Cardinal
Pine Siskin
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Chipping Sparrow
House Sparrow
Date: Saturday, May 11, 2013
Location: Clifton backyard
Reporter: Lori Brumbaugh
Other Birders:
There has been little to report this spring migration in the backyard so far compared to the past 6 years. Today I had a one Redstart and heard one Kentucky. I have never had a Kentucky Warbler here so I struggled to get a glass on it to no avail. An Orchard Oriole has been here 9 days, combatting with the resident Baltimore. Days before the Orchard's arrival, I have watched two dueling male Baltimores, one driving the other from the top of the tree to the ground. Thursday I had the first Nighthawks of the season and Wednesday I had my first ever Great Crested Flycatcher in the yard.
The only excitement this spring occurred when I was eating my lunch in the blind, listening to the bird calls. A feral cat flew in the window obviously thinking it was getting an easy meal but landed in my meal. After covering me and the inside of the blind with food, he flew right back out!
Date: Saturday, May 11, 2013
Location: Armleder Bean Field
Reporter: Dino Costanzo
Other Birders:
Spotted a Ruddy Turnstone at the big water patch at the back right edge. Seen at 4:37 PM
Date: Friday, May 10, 2013
Location: Valley View
Reporter: Andy Dickerson
Other Birders:
Northern Oriole
Orchard Oriole
Northern Parula
Wood Duck
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
Field Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
American Robin
Northern Cardinal
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Wren
Blue Gray Gnatcatcher
White Breasted Nuthatch
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Eastern Bluebird
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Eastern Turkey
Date: Friday, May 10, 2013
Location: Fort Thomas, KY
Reporter: James Lundberg
Other Birders:
After a few days of no migrants observed in the back yard, there was a small, encouraging group this morning: 2 Yellow-rumped, 2 Nashville, 1 Philly Vireo, 1 American Redstart, 1 Chestnut-sided.
Date: Thursday, May 9, 2013
Location: Lunken fly ash pond
Reporter: William Hull
Other Birders:
There were 3 Great Egrets there around 6PM today
Date: Thursday, May 9, 2013
Location: Hisey Park
Reporter: Dave Woehr
Other Birders: Kathy Staley, Judy Bay, Carol & Mike Soehner
Northern Bob White
Purple Martin
Song Sparrow
Great Blue Heron
Osprey
Yellowthroat
Yellow-breasted Chat
Indigo Bunting
Baltimore Oriole
Chipping sparrow
Flicker
Tree Swallow
Cowbird
Goldfinch
Catbird
Mockingbird
Date: Thursday, May 9, 2013
Location: My Backyard
Reporter: lorraine heizer
Other Birders:
The last 3 days I've had four white crowned sparrows under my feeders eating thistle and sunflowersHave every year at this time. Also Rose Breasted Grosbeak (M)
Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Location: Williamsburg wetlands (East Fork) and surrounding area
Reporter: Kathi Hutton
Other Birders: Amber Latham
61 species plus a pet Mute Swan on a private pond. Just hitting the highlights:
I started at Williamsburg community park and got my FOY Warbling Vireo, and a first year male Baltimore Oriole there.
Bantam Rd had my FOY Yellow-breasted Chat, Blue-winged Warbler, Prairie Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Scarlet Tanager, Baltimore Oriole, Red-eyed, White-eyed, and FOY Blue-headed Vireo. 2 Wood Thrushes were dueling across the road with that "wick-wick-wick" call, and another one was singing.
Williamsburg wetlands trail (from the bridge to the lake) had another Chat, Common Yellowthroat, Yellow Warbler, male and female Orchard Oriole (and a nest), FOY Least Flycatcher, a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers flying over, Northern Bobwhite calling, White-crowned Sparrows.
The part of the Perimeter Trail that leads from Greenbriar Rd to Slade Road had more Wood Thrushes, an Ovenbird and a Worm-eating Warbler (all heard only).
Lots of Indigo Buntings and Northern Parulas everywhere we went.
Great morning to be out.
Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Location: green township-Jessup road
Reporter: suzanne richardson
Other Birders: Red Shouldered Hawk
Red Shouldered Hawk- good size, sitting in my yard- 3rd time seeing him- Beautiful
Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: Shiloh Benz
Other Birders:
Thanks for showing me the black-billed cuckoo John! Around 8pm the bb cuckoo was constantly flying back and forth over the trail. Other highlights: blackpoll warbler, yellow-breasted chat, kingbird, orchard oriole.
Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Location: Armleder on the path that leads to the bike trail
Reporter: John Lind
Other Birders: Noah, others
Black-billed cuckoo in one of the small trees by the path. Up about 8 feet eating the buds on the tree.
Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Location: Voa
Reporter: Robert Foppe
Other Birders: Jennifer Smolenski
A quick run through VOA this evening was shocking. Last year I was there and trees had grown up everywhere. Now there is good looking shorebird habitat and plenty of field for sparrows and bobolinks. Didn't have time for a thorough count of species. Highlights included 1 Spotted Sandpiper, 1 Least, 1 SP Plover, 1 G Yellowlegs, 6 L Yellowlegs, 3 Bobolinks and 1 Blue Grosbeak. I had written the park off my birding radar but it looks pretty good right now.
Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Location: Eastgate Home
Reporter: Tyler Ficker
Other Birders: Mom
2 New yard bird!!!
1. Great Crested Flycatcher
2. Cape May Warbler!!
Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Location: Ellis Wetlands
Reporter: Dino Costanzo
Other Birders:
NO Cattle Egret at Ellis or Gilmore 2:45 PM. 2 Great Egrets as mentioned, but no Cattle Egret.
Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Location: Ellis Lake
Reporter: Jim Rettig
Other Birders:
Cattle Egret and 2 Great Egrets.
Cattle Egret was within several yards of the two Great Egrets. It had a buffy-tan wash on its head, breast and back. One half the size of the Great egrets. Light colored legs. From the parking lot look to the left. Also two snipe, and 20 or so other species.
Date: Monday, May 6, 2013
Location: Armleder 4:30
Reporter: C Emerson
Other Birders:
Lesser Yellowlegs, Least Sandpiper, Great Blue Heron, Mallard, Eastern Meadowlark, Tree Swallow, Turkey Vulture, Yellow-throated Chat, Song Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Red-winged Blackbird. Several Indigo Buntings flying around and singing, heard the Prothonotary Warbler and the Gray Catbird.
Date: Monday, May 6, 2013
Location: West Chester Wetlands/ Ellis Lake
Reporter: Brad Rapien
Other Birders:
Heard and then spotted a Peregrine Falcon flying over the fields off Firebird Lane.
Trip list:
Peregrine Falcon
American Redstart
Northern Parula
Prairie Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-Throated Warbler
Warbling Vireo
BG Gnatcatcher
House Wren
Gray Catbird
Northern Oriole
Orchard Oriole
Indigo Bunting
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-Throated Sparrow
White Crowned Sparrow
Blue Winged Teal
Wood Duck
And all the usual suspects
Date: Monday, May 6, 2013
Location: Cincinnati Nature Center
Reporter: John Lind
Other Birders:
American Redstart
Date: Monday, May 6, 2013
Location: Anderson Township, Anderson Center lake path
Reporter: Suzanne Clingman
Other Birders: Wilson Elememtary 2nd Graders
Species list for birds we saw:
Great Egret! (was at the lake early morning but unfortunately flew off before the kids arrived)
Red-shouldered Hawk
Turkey Vulture
Rough-winged Swallow
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Mallard
Cardinal
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Robin
Cowbird
Mourning Dove
Crow
Starling
(14 species)
With all six days of Forest Hills 2nd grade programs we had 29 species total counting the Great Egret.
Date: Sunday, May 5, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: Jonathan Frodge
Other Birders:
Good migrant mix this afternoon in the rain - Shorebirds: Semipalmated Plover, Greater Yellowlegs, 7 Lesser Yellowlegs, 3 Solitary and probably 20 Least Sandpipers. It's quite possible I missed some too, as rain was not helping the viewing conditions. Same location had 4 Blue-winged Teal, 1 Black Duck, Mallards, Wood Ducks, geese, 4 swallow species, FOS Pewee, Blackpoll, Yellow-rumped, Prothonotary Warblers, Chat, Indigo Buntings, orioles, White-crowned (by far the most numerous species) & Savannah Sparrows.
Date: Sunday, May 5, 2013
Location: Camp Dennison
Reporter: Jonathan Frodge
Other Birders:
Midday walk with the dog around the large lake - pair of Blue Grosbeak copulating, Field, Song, White-crowned Sparrows, 3 Prairie Warblers, N Parula, Warbling Vireos, Orchard, Baltimore Orioles, 1 rather late female L Scaup.
Date: Sunday, May 5, 2013
Location: Fernald
Reporter: Mark Artmayer
Other Birders:
@10:00am: Had a spectacular male Blue Grosbeak at the far end of the main parking lot.
Date: Saturday, May 4, 2013
Location: Fernald
Reporter: C Emerson
Other Birders:
Started at 7:30 looking for the two Ibis. Had good view, they even flushed a short distance and were feeding scooping with their long bills as they paced back and forth.
Blue winged Teal
Mute Swan
Mallard
Pectoral Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs
Barn Swallow
Northern rough-winged Swallow
Turkey Vulture
Yello-throated Warbler
Eastern Kingbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Eurpean Starling
Warbling Vireo
Common Grackle
Field Sparrow
Northern Mockingbird
Gray Catbird
Eastern Bluebird
Indigo Bunting
Canada Goose
Killdeer
Great Blue Heron
Broad winged Hawk
Northern Harrier
Least Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Yellow-breasted Chat
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow Warbler
Baltimore Oriole
Blue Gray Gnatcatcher
Song Sparrow
American Goldfinch
Brown-headed Cowbird
Northern Cardinal
Savannah Sparrow
Pine Warbler
Palm Warbler
Mourning Dove
Eastern Meadowlark
Spotted Towhee
Eastern Towhee
Date: Saturday, May 4, 2013
Location: Our house in Kenwood
Reporter: Liz Rising
Other Birders: Ethan, Josh, and John Rising
Ethan posting:
It seems like an invasion of Chestnut-Sided Warblers and they still come within 5 feet. Also had 1 male Rose Breasted Grosbeak--yard bird!! Very exciting and extremely beautiful!!
Date: Saturday, May 4, 2013
Location: Boone County Cliffs State NP
Reporter: Kathi Hutton
Other Birders: Audubon Miami Valley field trip
Turkey Vulture
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Yellow-throated Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Swainson’s Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Blue-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped (“Myrtle”) Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Ovenbird
Louisiana Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Eastern Towhee
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
American Goldfinch
Butterflies: Tiger, Spicebush and Zebra Swallowtail
Wildflowers: Mayapples, Jack-in-the-pulpit, Wild Hyacinth, Wild Phlox, Dwarf Larkspur, Wild Columbine, Blue-eyed Mary, assorted violets, and more
Great place if you've never been. We had awesome looks at a singing Kentucky Warbler, multiple Scarlet Tanagers, Cerulean, Yellow-throated Vireo, many Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, a very cooperative Summer Tanager just to hit the highlights.
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 1969
Location: Winton Woods front yard
Reporter: Jon Seymour
Other Birders: Jon Seymour
I still have 6-9 Pine Siskin visiting my front yard feeders daily. If not at the feeders they can sometimes be heard singing from the trees in the front of the house. Most commonly seen in the morning but occasionally throughout the day.
Date: Saturday, May 4, 2013
Location: Winton Woods front yard
Reporter: Jon Seymour
Other Birders: Jon Seymour
I still have 6-9 Pine Siskin visiting my front yard feeders daily. If not at the feeders they can sometimes be heard singing from the trees in the front of the house. Most commonly seen in the morning but occasionally throughout the day.
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Location: Oxbow, Lawrenceburg
Reporter: Jon Seymour
Other Birders:
Taking visitors through the Oxbow. Things pretty quiet. 16 Great Blue Heron, 8 Double-crested Cormorant, 17 Mallard, 15-20 Blue-winged Teal, 2 Wood Duck, 1 Imm. Bald Eagle, 5 Turkey Vulture, 3 American Crow, 1 House Wren, 2 Warbling Vireo, 2 Solitary Sandpiper, 1 Horned Lark. Various American Robin, Northern Cardinal, American Goldfinch, Red-winged Blackbird, Mourning Dove, Carolina Wren and Carolina Chickadee.
Date: Saturday, May 4, 2013
Location: Armleder Park
Reporter: Matt Adams
Other Birders:
From 7:30-9:30
2 Belted Kingfisher
1 Eastern Kingbird
2 Warbling Vireo
1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
3 Tree Swallow
1 Carolina Wren
2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2 Gray Catbird
1 Northern Mockingbird
2 Yellow Warbler
1 Yellow-breasted Chat
17 White-crowned Sparrow
1 Northern Cardinal
2 Indigo Bunting
25 Red-winged Blackbird
1 Orchard Oriole
2 American Goldfinch
Date: Saturday, May 4, 2013
Location: Fernald
Reporter: Patricia Lee
Other Birders:
2 Ibis (Plegadis) still present as of 9:30am. They are feeding into the taller grass along the pond, so they do disappear for periods of time. 1 definitely looks White-faced to me. Legs more overall red, wider white eye outline than what you'd expect on a Glossy. The other was hard to get looks at.
Also, a friendly reminder to check for ticks. I was only out for 15 minutes and didn't go off trail or into woods, and I still had one on me.
Date: Friday, May 3, 2013
Location: Home
Reporter: David Brinkman
Other Birders:
New yard bird this morning through open windows while getting ready for interview.
A Wood Thrush was singing. We hardly have habitat for them here, but several houses down it is more wooded. We just have a row of honeysuckles, one pine tree and one hackberry tree.
Date: Friday, May 3, 2013
Location: Cincinnati Nature Center-Long Branch Farm, Goshen, Ohio
Reporter: Laura Bradley
Other Birders: Phoenix, Indira
barn swallow, tree swallows, eastern meadowlark, blue-gray gnatcatchers, eastern bluebird, white-breasted nuthatch, red-winged blackbirds, chipping sparrows, song sparrows, eastern towhees
Stonelick State Park: plenty of great blue herons
Date: Friday, May 3, 2013
Location: Fernald
Reporter: Mike Murphy
Other Birders:
1:30 to 2:30 PM
Ibis' (2)
Green Heron (1)
Greater Yellow Legs (2)
Lodge Pond
Date: Friday, May 3, 2013
Location: Fernald
Reporter: Jeff Foster
Other Birders: my son Jeffrey
Was at Fernald from 7:20 to 8:20 this morning and the Ibis' were not there at that time. I did, however, see a Green Heron, which was a lifer for me. I got some great views of him through my binoculars. He was there for about 20 minutes and then flew off toward the east.
Date: Friday, May 3, 2013
Location: addendum
Reporter: Barb Schwallie
Other Birders:
As of 4 p.m., Ibis still present at Fernald.
Date: Friday, May 3, 2013
Location: Fernald
Reporter: Barb Schwallie
Other Birders:
Two ibis still present in Lodge Pond reeds toward Willey Road.
Date: Friday, May 3, 2013
Location: Avon Woods Nature Preserve
Reporter: Susan Conner
Other Birders: Floyd Conner
Barred Owl flying through the woods near the Frankenstein Steps on the loop trail. Avon's a good place in the spring for warblers, too, and for wildflowers -- a nice Shooting Star on the upper trail off the parking lot and blooming Pawpaws throughout the understory.
Date: Friday, May 3, 2013
Location: Anderson Township, Anderson Center lake trail
Reporter: Suzanne Clingman
Other Birders: Summit Elementary 2nd graders
Species list of birds seen with the kids:
Barn Swallow
Red-shouldered Hawk
Yellow Warbler
Killdeer
Mallard
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Rough-winged Swallow
Red-winged Blackbird
Mourning Dove
Song Sparrow
Cardinal
Robin
Cowbird
Starling
House Sparrow
(15 species)
Date: Saturday, May 25, 2013
Location: Fernald
Reporter: Jason Cade
Other Birders: Frank Frick and fam, 2 other ladies I did not get their names
Stopped by to look for the ibises. Arrived around 11 am and Frank pointed out the White-faced Ibis which was foraging on the far side of the pond nearest Willey Rd. While observing this bird the 2 ladies walked up and one spotted the second bird walking in the cattails in the near pond. It soon flew over and joined the second bird. In my opinion the one bird looks like a classic White-faced Ibis. I observed the pinkish facial skin, white feathered border behind his eye, & in the right light I was able to see the red eye. As far as the second bird I can understand the debate and I'll let the experts figure that one out :) I was just glad to get good looks at these excellent birds. Great birding!
Trip List:
Date: Friday, May 3, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: C Emerson
Other Birders:
Heard the Black-billed Cuckoo. Spotted a Yellow-breasted Chat, Black-throated Blue Warbler, White-eyed Vireo, Indigo Bunting, Belted Kingfisher, Warbling Vireo, Prothonotary Warbler. Baltimore Orioles were very vocal this morning.
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Location: Clifton yard
Reporter: William Hull
Other Birders:
Last Tuesday I reported a Northern Goshawk to eBird after being alerted by Bill Zimmerman, who was at Burnet Woods, to an interesting raptor heading my way. Although the bird was highly suggestive of this species and I had reported it as such to eBird, I will be changing my entry to Accipiter species. Although it was highly suggestive of this species, the brief sighting and my lack of recent experience with this species (last was 2005) is not giving me the confidence level I would like to have before reporting at species level.
Date: Friday, May 3, 2013
Location: Our house in Kenwood
Reporter: Liz Rising
Other Birders: Ethan Rising, John Rising
There seems to be a few Chestnut-Sided Warblers around our yard; I heard one yesterday. But just this morning one was almost breaking our eardrums because there was a male 5(!) feet from our deck. It was a very pretty bird. Also we have had Yellow-throated and Red-eyed Vireos, and Yellow, Pine, and Black and White Warblers. We never thought we would get this many migrants in our suburban area!
Ethan Rising
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013
Location: Fernald Preserve
Reporter: Paul Krusling
Other Birders:
Outstanding day at Fernald!
Canada Goose 12
Mute Swan 2
American Wigeon 1
Mallard 10
Blue-winged Teal 6
Great Blue Heron 4
White-faced Ibis 2
Turkey Vulture 4
Semipalmated Plover 1
Killdeer 6
Spotted Sandpiper 4
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 10
Pectoral Sandpiper 2
Wilson's Snipe 1
Rock Pigeon 6
Mourning Dove 8
Barred Owl 1
Common Nighthawk 1
Chimney Swift 20
Belted Kingfisher 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
American Kestrel 1
Eastern Kingbird 4
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 6
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 4
Purple Martin 1
Tree Swallow 10
Barn Swallow 4
Carolina Chickadee 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
Eastern Bluebird 3
American Robin 8
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 4
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 6
Yellow Warbler 2
Chipping Sparrow 2
Field Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 2
White-crowned Sparrow 12
Northern Cardinal 4
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 45
Eastern Meadowlark 2
Common Grackle 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 3
Orchard Oriole 4
Baltimore Oriole 2
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 4
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013
Location: Fernald Preserve - Lodge Pond
Reporter: David Brinkman
Other Birders: None today
White-faced Ibis present from 2:50 p.m. - 3:17 p.m. in back end (closest to Wiley Rd.) of Lodge Pond.
Smaller than a great blue heron. Bird in alternate plumage. Long legs, long neck, long gray decurved bill. Rich chestnut head and neck, underparts, mantle. Wing coverts iridescent green. Bright pink facial skin. White border going from lower mandible around behind eye and meeting at upper mandible. Legs have bright red color at intertarsal joint. Actively feeding with head low, probing bill into the underwater surface of the pond.
Also four species of non-killdeer shorebirds included Greater Yellowlegs, Spotted Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper and Least Sandpiper.
e-bird checklist available at:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/email?subID=S13967546
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013
Location: Armleder and Riverside park
Reporter: Tyler Ficker
Other Birders: Mom, Cassidy
Good Day today!
Armleder, Hamilton, US-OH
May 2, 2013 3:15 PM - 4:33 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments:
47 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 3
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) 5
Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors) 7
Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) 2
hawk sp. (Accipitridae sp.) 1
Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) 1
Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius) 2
Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria) 3
Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) 1
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) 3
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) 4
Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) 1
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) 1
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) 2
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (Stelgidopteryx serripennis) 2
Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) 3
Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) 2
Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) 1
Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) 3
House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) 2
Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) 3
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 4
Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) 2
Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) 2
European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) 5
Worm-eating Warbler (Helmitheros vermivorum) 1
Blue-winged Warbler (Vermivora cyanoptera) 1
Tennessee Warbler (Oreothlypis peregrina) 2
Blackburnian Warbler (Setophaga fusca) 1
Yellow-throated Warbler (Setophaga dominica) 1
Prairie Warbler (Setophaga discolor) 2
Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) 1
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) 2
Field Sparrow (Spizella pusilla) 1
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) 3
White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) 20
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 3
Blue Grosbeak (Passerina caerulea) 1
Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea) 2
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) 4
Eastern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna) 2
Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) 2
Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) 4
Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) 3
House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) 2
Riverside:
While taking pictures at a baseball game, 1 warbling vireo
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013
Location: Felicity
Reporter: Kathi Hutton
Other Birders:
New Yard Bird tonight - Yellow Warbler. Makes my yard list 83, including 7 warbler species.
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013
Location: Miami Whitewater Wetlands
Reporter: Evan Leon
Other Birders:
Took a long meander through the wetlands this afternoon and soon found myself absolutely covered with ticks. As a result I walked back towards the parking area via the Bike path instead of the grass and picked up several singing Henslow's Sparrows.
Otherwise-Red Breasted Mergs have ducklings on the marsh, several Soras calling-flushed one, Swamp Sparrow.
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013
Location: Back yard in Delhi
Reporter: Linda Waugh
Other Birders: Bob Waugh
Enjoyed watching a pair of Pine Siskins at our thistle feeder this morning while we had our coffee on the deck.
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013
Location: Lodge pond Fernald
Reporter: Allan Claybon
Other Birders:
3:45 1Ibis present
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013
Location: Felicity
Reporter: Kathi Hutton
Other Birders:
FOY Orchard Oriole returned to sing from the top of my big maple tree today, seems interested in the feeders. White-crowned Sparrow has been singing from the apple tree nearly all day. A pair of Eastern Kingbirds twittering away from the power line along the road, Purple Martins building nests and Tree Swallows with 3 eggs in the back yard. Downy and Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Song and Chipping Sparrows, a pair of Eastern Bluebirds, a Carolina Wren singing, Northern Mockingbird trying to out-sing them all, when he's not stealing the grape jelly.
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: C Emerson
Other Birders:
A Cedar Waxwing and a Black-billed Cuckoo. Both birds were in the area just north of the boat launch this morning between 7:30 and 8. Other notables, Indigo Bunting, Baltimore Oriole, Orchard Oriole, Prothonotary Warbler, Eastern Kingbird, Yellow Warbler, Warbling Vireo
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013
Location: Fernald, Lost Bridge
Reporter: Frank Frick
Other Birders:
Ibis is back at fernald. At lost bridge one dunlin, three Semipalmated plovers, two least sandpipers.
Date: Friday, April 26, 2013
Location: Firebird Ln/Port Union Trail, West Chester
Reporter: Mary Cullum
Other Birders:
Friday evening (4/26) I saw a Sandhill Crane in the old field area. Also, this week heard a Blue-winged Warbler outside my window!
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Location: Fernald, Miami Whitewater, Kilby Rd, Lost Bridge, Shawnee Lookout
Reporter: Jason Cade
Other Birders: Shiloh Benz
We had quite a variety of birds today. No ibis at Fernald unfortunately. I'll just list the best birds at each location.
Fernald: Lesser Yellowlegs, Pectoral Sandpipers
Miami Whitewater: Warblers- Ovenbird, Cape May, Cerulean, Blackburnian, Chestnut-sided; Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Kilby Gravel Pit: 1 Common Loon still in basic plumage just starting to transition
Lost Bridge: 1 Northern Harrier, 2 Black-bellied Plovers, 14 Pectoral Sandpipers, Cliff Swallows
Shawnee Lookout: all 5 expected vireos, Warblers- Blue-winged, Prothonotary, Redstart, Cerulean, Blackpoll; White-crowned Sparrows, Scarlet Tanager, both Orioles
Miami Whitewater Wetlands: 1 Green Heron, 2 Soras (seen and heard), 1 Gray Catbird, 1 Northern Waterthrush, 2 Common Yellowthroats, 1 Yellow-breasted Chat
Great Birding!
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Location: Blue Rock Rd.
Reporter: David Brinkman
Other Birders:
Visited twice today. This morning 6:31-7 a.m. I had a pair of BLUE GROSBEAKS at traditional Lark Sparrow site. This afternoon, 3:07-3:11 p.m. I had a singing LARK SPARROW at this site.
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: C Emerson
Other Birders:
7 to 8 a.m Eastern Kingbird, Warbling Vireo, Yellow Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Worm-eating Warbler, Baltimore Oriole, Orchard Oriole, Inidgo Bunting, Kildeer, American Goldfinch, Barn Swallow, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Tree Swallow
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Location: Fernald Preserve
Reporter: Jay Stenger
Other Birders: Harris Abramson, Joe Bens
The two White-faced Ibises were seen at Lodge Pond at Fernald Preserve yesterday until around 7:45 PM when they both flew to the north and seemed to land on one of the hidden ponds out that way. I was there again today between 11 AM and noon with Joe Bens and we did not find them on Lodge Pond, the Bio-wetlands Pond or any ponds along the road. Of course they may still have been present and tucked away on one of the many ponds at Fernald Preserve.
Some of the species found at Fernald either last night with Harris Abramson or for a one-hour visit, or from 11:00 AM until noon today with Joe Bens included; Wood Duck 8, Blue-winged Teal 20~, Northern Bobwhite 1, Great Blue Heron3, Green Heron 1, Cooper’s Hawk 1, Red-tailed Hawk 2, American Kestrel 1, American Coot 2, Solitary Sandpiper 3, Spotted Sandpiper 2, Greater Yellowlegs 16, Lesser Yellowlegs 12, Least Sandpiper 6, Pectoral Sandpiper 1, Chimney Swift 6, Eastern Kingbird 1, White-eyed Vireo 1, Warbling Vireo 1, Red-eyed Vireo 1, Horned lark 2, Bank Swallow 3, many Tree, N. Rough-winged & Barn Swallows, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2, Eastern Bluebird 2, Brown Thrasher 1, Yellow-rumped Warbler 6, Yellow-throated Warbler 1, Common Yellowthroat 1, Palm Warbler 1, Yellow-breasted Chat 1, Indigo Bunting 1, Eastern Meadowlark 6, Orchard Oriole 2.
Today around noon I found one singing Lark Sparrow right along the side of Blue Rock Road in the same spot where they have been found the past few years. This is about Ľ mile north of New Haven Road.
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Location: Not a sighting
Reporter: Tyler Ficker
Other Birders:
I meant to say that I don't have roof access not room access.. sorry
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Location: MVCA
Reporter: Tyler Ficker
Other Birders:
3 common night hawks at 8:00 am
I think I might have found the are they nest in every year but I don't have room access to the school.. yet... I will try to find it.
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Location: Anderson Township Anderson Center lake path
Reporter: Suzanne Clingman
Other Birders: Sherwood Elementary 2nd graders
Species list of birds we saw:
Red-shouldered Hawk
Cowbird
Great Blue Heron
Killdeer
Rough-winged Swallow
Red-winged Blackbird
Mallard
Canada Goose
Yellow Warbler
Hairy Woodpecker
Tufted Titmouse
Phoebe
Turkey Vulture
Blue Jay
Robin
Cardinal
Song Sparrow
Mourning Dove
Starling
House Sparrow
(20 species)
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Location: 3266 Sugartree Rd, Bethel, OH
Reporter: Robert Edelen
Other Birders:
When what to my wondering eyes should appear...surely a season's first bunting, but NO, right here in the oak-hickory next to the lake, a BLUE GROSBEAK, for several hours, with photographs. We don't often get "yard birds" after 25 years, but we did today.
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Location: Fernald
Reporter: Doug Robinson
Other Birders:
Here are some good pic's of the IBIS.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmbell64/page2/
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Location: Fernald
Reporter: Dino Costanzo
Other Birders:
She stated that it was a hybrid for a fact which was basically dismissed, if you go to our message board.
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Location: United American Cemetery -- sunset
Reporter: Kirk Westendorf
Other Birders:
1 Common Nighthawk
Heard calling every few seconds for several minutes from the south.
Date: Saturday, May 25, 2013
Location: Gaker's Farm (Liberty Twp., Ohio)
Reporter: John Forg
Other Birders:
A good day for birding in the country.
Highlights: American Bittern, Great Blue Heron, Belted Kingfisher.
Others: Canada Goose, (20+), Mallards (4), Rough-Shouldered Swallows (2), Tree Swallow (nesting), Yellow Warbler (1), Yellow-Rumped Warbler (1), Eastern Bluebirds (2), Killdeer (8), Red-Wing Blackbirds (20+), Eastern Phoebe (nesting), Field Sparrow (nesting), Chipping Sparrows (4), American Goldfinch (4), Hairy Woodpecker, Turkey Vulture, numerous Robins, Grackles & Starlings
Trip List:
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Location: Kilby Rd. Gravel Pits
Reporter: David Brinkman
Other Birders:
Spent an hour here scouting for the upcoming birdathon and was surprised when one of the ibises presumably coming from Fernald was flying toward me and flew south right over the lake and headed toward the oxbow. Not pinpointing an ID to white-faced on this bird primarily because of ID from photos from experts in northern Ohio on the Ohio Birds mailing listserve that at least one of the Fernald birds may be a Plegadis hybrid, that is, White-faced x Glossy Ibis.
Also, had it not been for three swallows that flew past to my left, causing me to turn around to nail the ID as barn swallows, I would have missed a close, point-blank, fly-by of an adult Peregrine Falcon! As I was leaving, 44 Double-crested Cormorants were circling on the other side of Kilby Rd. from the Smith Tract.
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Location: Sharon Woods
Reporter: Jason Cade
Other Birders: Shiloh Benz
Went birding this morning from 7-12. We had a nice variety of migrants and residents.
Highlights: 1 Green Heron, 4 Great-crested Flycatchers, 2 Eastern Kingbirds, 3 Warbling Vireos, 2 Red-eyed Vireos, 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch, 3 Wood Thrushes (including a pair occupying a nest), 1 Black-and-White Warbler, 12 Nashville Warblers (second most abundant warbler to Yellow-rump), 1 Northern Parula, 1 Blackburnian Warbler, 5 Yellow Warblers, 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak, 8 Baltimore Orioles.
Most of the birds and especially the migrants were VERY accommodating providing excellent views for Shiloh who is enjoying his first year of spring migration!
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: Susan Conner
Other Birders: Floyd Conner
Cliff Swallows, at roughly 3 p.m, under the bridge on the connector path to Lunken. Also, at the shrubby side of the gravel-pit pond, an Eastern Kingbird. Near the south field, a female Northern Harrier. Many White-crowned Sparrows, Blue-Grey Gnatcatchers, Tree Swallows and Baltimore Orioles. Didn't see the Bobolinks, alas.
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Location: Clifton on Vine and Mitchell
Reporter: Lori Brumbaugh
Other Birders:
On my way into work, I was driving north on Vine towards Mitchell when I saw a large raptor flying west. It was too large for a Cooper's but had a long tail. I had no binos but hurried to make the turn west on Mitchell to see if I could ID it. Traffic was too heavy and it flew out of sight.
Last night on the way home from work around 6p, I believe I saw the same bird flying around Washington towards Clinton Springs. Again no binos when I hurried to make the turn to Clinton Springs, I lost it in the woods.
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Location: S-Bound 71 near Taft exit
Reporter: Evan Leon
Other Birders:
Saw a large accipiter heading northward on the southbound side of 71 by the Taft exit. Not to add to goshawk speculation mania or anything :P
Date: Saturday, May 25, 2013
Location: Cincinnati Nature Center (Rowe Woods)
Reporter: William McGill
Other Birders:
My surprise when a Wild Turkey hen emerged from the wild rose sticker bushes in the field by Avery's run.
Trip List: Canada Goose, Wild Turkey, Black Vulture, Turkey Vulture, Red-shouldered Hawk, Mourning Dove, Chimney Swift, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Pileated Woodpecker, Great Crested Flycatcher, Yellow-throated Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, Blue Jay, Carolina Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, White-breasted Nuthatch, Carolina Wren, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Eastern Bluebird, Wood Thrush, American Robin, Gray Catbird, European Starling, Northern Parula, Cape May Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Bay-breasted Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Hooded Warbler, Eastern Towhee, Chipping Sparrow, Field Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Northern Cardinal, Indigo Bunting, Red-winged Blackbird, Brown-headed Cowbird, Baltimore Oriole, American Goldfinch
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Location: Anderson Township Anderson Center lake path
Reporter: Suzanne Clingman
Other Birders: Mercer Elementary 2nd grade
Species list of bird we saw:
Tufted Titmouse (going in a out of nest hole)
Warbling Vireo
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-winged Blackbird
Crow
Chickadee
Spotted Sandpiper
Killdeer
Chimney Swift
Turkey Vulture
Blue Jay
Mourning Dove
Robin
Song Sparrow
Cardinal
Mallard
Canada Goose
Starling
(18 species)
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Location: Burnet Woods
Reporter: William Hull
Other Birders: Bill Zimmerman
Must be Bill Z's lucky day today. He spotted an Eastern Whip-poor-will that flushed as I walked by it on the Warbler trail.
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/mwY4EPvE-MkMEWcc95VqDNMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
Last we saw it bird was on slope nearest road that runs from center of the park to the NW corner. Approximate location is noted on the map below. If it calls at dusk or later, one could probably hear from the road.
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=202589219494181221829.0004db97f10b744362070&msa=0&ll=39.137811,-84.516656&spn=0.002339,0.004128
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Location: Fernald Preserve and Oxbow
Reporter: Jeff Foster
Other Birders: Several Others
It started out very foggy at Fernald this morning. A bunch of us ended up at Lodge Pond waiting for the fog to clear so we could spot the Ibis. We were not disappointed.
Here is a list of the birds I saw at Fernald:
Mallard
Canada Goose
Red-winged Blackbird
Northern Cardinal
Mourning Dove
Mute Swan
Belted Kingfisher
SONG SPARROW - Lifer
SPOTTED SANDPIPER - Lifer
SOLITARY SANDPIPER - Lifer
EASTERN KINGBIRD - Lifer
Wood Duck
Tree Swallow
GREATER YELLOWLEGS - Lifer
COMMON YELLOWTHROAT - Lifer
Orchard Oriole
Great Blue Heron
Common Grackle
American Coot
Killdeer
BLUE-WINGED TEAL - Lifer
WHITE-FACED IBIS - Lifer
On our way home, my son and I decided to stop and see what was at Oxbow. Nothing unusual was there. I didn't see a single bird anywhere near Jackpot Pond.
Oxbow:
Red-tailed Hawk
Canada Goose
Great Blue Heron - dozens of them
American Crow - dozens of them
Northern Cardinal
Blue-winged Teal - 5
Tree Swallow - maybe 30 of them
Red-winged Blackbird - too many to count
American Robin
Killdeer - Mama and 3 babies - the babies were really cute!
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Location: Burnet Woods
Reporter: Bill Zimmerman
Other Birders: Bill Hull
Northern Goshawk fly-over around 8:40 this morning, seen from the pit area near the shelter house. Very large hawk came into view from the north, gliding to the east. Gave a few slow, heavy wing beats, then gliding effortlessly to the east. Long tail proportion gave it instant accipiter feel but much larger than usual, grayish overall with some dark streaks on breast, very large chest.
I texted Bill Hull as it flew out of my sight, as it was headed in the vicinity of his house. He stepped outside and found the bird. He felt it was N. Goshawk as well. Last seen gliding to east over the Zoo.
Date: Monday, April 29, 2013
Location: Big Island Marsh
Reporter: Dino Costanzo
Other Birders:
I spent some time listening to the Western Meadowlark sing that Jay located and I can say with confidence that the bird we heard earlier this year at Fernald that David first heard was indeed a Western. I wish the bird would have stayed longer, but I talked at length with John Habig who also saw and heard the bird for a good 40 plus minutes and he is also very conclusive about what he saw and heard. I would not be surprised if we have many more visits in the future.
Date: Monday, April 29, 2013
Location: Fernald Preserve
Reporter: Susan & Linda Osterhage
Other Birders: Andy Bess, Allan Claybon
Two White-faced Ibis seen on Lodge Pond along with two Green Herons, Lesser Yellowlegs, Solitary Sandpipers, and Blue-winged Teal.
Video of Ibis http://www.flickr.com/photos/92254657@N06/8693563619/in/photostream/
Date: Monday, April 29, 2013
Location: Crooked Run State Nature Preserve adjacent to Chilo Lock 34 Pakrk
Reporter: Suzanne Clingman
Other Birders:
First year male summer tanager at the sunflower tube feeder this morning, wonderful olive and red mottling! I don't think we've ever had a summer tanager at the tube feeder before. Too bad my camera was in the car. Our first summer tanager of this spring was on April 18th but not at the feeder and not a first year male.
Date: Monday, April 29, 2013
Location: Fernald Preserve
Reporter: Leslie Houser
Other Birders: Don Morris, Ann Oliver
The 2 White-faced Ibis were still being seen at the southern end of Lodge Pond as of 2:30 this afternoon.
Date: Monday, April 29, 2013
Location: Anderson Townshiip Anderson Center lake path
Reporter: Suzanne Clingman
Other Birders: Maddux Elementary 2nd graders
Species list of birds we saw:
Turkey Vulture
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Rough-winged Swallow
Song Sparrow
Mallard
Canada Goose
Robin
Cardinal
Starling
House Sparrow
Date: Monday, April 29, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: Stanley Hedeen
Other Birders:
At 11 am, there were three male bobolinks in the field immediately south of the pavilion.
Date: Monday, April 29, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: C Emerson
Other Birders:
This morning at 7:30: The Blue Grosbeak was back. Baltimore Oriole, Common Yellowthroat, Palm Warbler, American Goldfinch, White-crowned Sparrow, Red-winged Blackbird, Brown-headed Cowbird, Song Sparrow
Date: Sunday, April 28, 2013
Location: Spring Grove Cemetary
Reporter: Joe Bens
Other Birders: Cincinnati Bird Club
A nice selection of early warblers, and a few migrants. A number of first-of-year arrivals.
1 Hooded Warbler
1 Pine Warbler
4 Yellow Throated Warbler
12 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Blue-winged Warber
2 N Parula
1 Scarlet Tananger
2 Hermit Thrush
2 Wood Thrush
1 Great-crested Flycatcher
1 Winter Wren
12 Pine Siskins
10 Gnatcather (one on nest)
1 Catbird
Date: Monday, April 29, 2013
Location: Fernald lodge pond
Reporter: Allan Claybon
Other Birders:
2 white-faced ibis present 9am
Date: Sunday, April 28, 2013
Location: Back yard in Delhi
Reporter: Linda Waugh
Other Birders: Bob Waugh
Baltimore oriole feeding at our hummer feeder beside our back door.
Date: Sunday, April 28, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: Jonathan Frodge
Other Birders:
Evening: 1 Osprey carrying a fish heading downstream. I am starting to think that a lower Little Miami resident or resident pair is likely. As late in the day as it was any osprey associated with the Ceasars Creek pair would be a long way from home territory at dark, and increasing personal observations and other reports point towards resident OSprey closer than Ceasar's. Also of note: Solitary Sandpiper, Blackpoll and Yellow Warblers, and Orchard Oriole.
Date: Saturday, May 25, 2013
Location: East Loveland Nature Preserve, Loveland
Reporter: Laura Bradley
Other Birders: Phoenix, Indira
Trip List: Canada Goose 2, Mallard 1, Great Blue Heron 1, Downy Woodpecker 3, Hairy Woodpecker 1, Northern Flicker 1, Great Crested Flycatcher 1, Blue Jay 5, American Crow 3, Carolina Chickadee 4, Tufted Titmouse 6, Carolina Wren 2, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1, Wood Thrush 2, American Robin 6, Northern Mockingbird 1, Prairie Warbler 1, Eastern Towhee 1, Chipping Sparrow 1, Field Sparrow 1, Song Sparrow 2, White-throated Sparrow 3, Red-winged Blackbird 1
Date: Sunday, April 28, 2013
Location: Fernald - Lodge Pond
Reporter: Evan Leon
Other Birders: Carly Ogden
White-Faced Ibis feeding across from the observation deck on lodge pond.
Date: Sunday, April 28, 2013
Location: Riverside Park.
Reporter: eric burkholder
Other Birders: Kirk Westendorf
There was a pair of Ospreys along the Little Miami River. One perched in a tree on the Avoca Park side of the river while the other flew overhead. I think 2 had been reported by others a couple weeks ago. There are enough small ponds and the river in this area to maybe support a pair of Ospreys. Too bad the only Osprey platform is about 15' tall and stuck in the middle of the south field at Armleder.
Date: Sunday, April 28, 2013
Location: Home near Owensville
Reporter: Jo Johnstone
Other Birders: Dave Johnstone
We had a Summer Tanager on our deck eating plain suet from our suet basket.
Date: Saturday, May 25, 2013
Location: Madison Place/Mariemont
Reporter: Brandy Willis
Other Birders:
Trip List: Swallow-tailed Kite 1
Date: Sunday, April 28, 2013
Location: Okeana backyard
Reporter: Bob Schlake
Other Birders:
Just watched a Blue Grosbeak hunting in the grass. A first for our yard.
Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013
Location: Boone Cliffs
Reporter: Susan & Linda Osterhage
Other Birders:
Went hoping to find Worm-eating, Hooded and Kentucky Warblers. Got some good looks at a Hooded Warbler - heard at least 5, but only heard the Worm-eating and the Kentucky. Other birds of note - Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Swainson's Thrush, Wood Thrush, Nashville Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Northern Parula, Black-throated Green Warbler(heard only) Red-eyed Vireo, Scarlet Tanager, Eastern Kingbird, Baltimore Oriole, White-throated Sparrow, Pileated Woodpecker.
Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013
Location: Otto Armleda Park
Reporter: Debra Patek
Other Birders: Other birders we met on trail (Gibsons, et. al.)
Trip list: Blackpoll Warbler, Prothonotary Warblers, Robins, Cardinals, Orchard Oriole, Yellow Rumped Warblers, Canada Geese, Carolina Chickadees, Titmouse.
Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013
Location: Inside Lowe's Milford (Bird Food Aisle)
Reporter: Debra Patek
Other Birders:
I'm pretty sure I saw a Snow Bunting hanging out with House Sparrows in the bird seed aisle. This isn't the first time I've seen him/her. Unfortunately, I didn't have my iPhone with me to snap a picture.
Date: Saturday, May 25, 2013
Location: Lost Bridge, Shawnee Lookout, Fernald
Reporter: Dino Costanzo
Other Birders:
Trip List: Canada Goose, Mute Swan, Wood Duck, Mallard, Blue-winged Teal, Least Bittern, Great Blue Heron, Turkey Vulture, Broad-winged Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Semipalmated Plover, Killdeer, Spotted Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, Greater Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Rock Pigeon, Mourning Dove, Chimney Swift, Belted Kingfisher, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker, Yellow-throated Vireo, Warbling Vireo, Blue Jay, American Crow, Purple Martin, Tree Swallow, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Barn Swallow, Carolina Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, White-breasted Nuthatch, Carolina Wren, House Wren, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Eastern Bluebird, American Robin, Gray Catbird, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Palm Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Cerulean Warbler, American Redstart, Prothonotary Warbler, Worm-eating Warbler, Scarlet Tanager, Eastern Towhee, Chipping Sparrow, Field Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Song Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Northern Cardinal, Blue Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, Red-winged Blackbird, Eastern Meadowlark, Rusty Blackbird, Brown-headed Cowbird, Orchard Oriole, Baltimore Oriole, American Goldfinch, House Sparrow
Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013
Location: Embshoff Woods
Reporter: Linda Waugh
Other Birders: Bob Waugh
White-throated sparrow - 2
Black & white warbler -1
Black-throated green warbler -2
Yellow-throated warbler -1
Eastern Kingbird -1
Northern Cardinals
Carolina Chickadees
American Robins
Chipping Sparrows
Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013
Location: Spring Grove Cemetery
Reporter: Bill Zimmerman
Other Birders:
7:45 AM to 12:45 PM - Highlights were nice, clear looks at Yellow-throated, White-eyed and Warbling Vireos, Blue-winged and Hooded Warblers and 3 Hermit Thrushes. Very close look at a BG Gnatcatcher taking spiderwebs for building its nest.
Canada Goose 4
Mute Swan 1
Wood Duck 1
Mallard 5
Great Blue Heron 2
Turkey Vulture 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Accipiter sp. 2
Mourning Dove 7
Barred Owl 1
Chimney Swift 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 5
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Great Crested Flycatcher 5
White-eyed Vireo 2
Yellow-throated Vireo 1
Warbling Vireo 1
Blue Jay 5
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Tree Swallow 5
Carolina Chickadee 9
Tufted Titmouse 4
Red-breasted Nuthatch 6
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren 6
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 40+
Hermit Thrush 3
Wood Thrush 1
American Robin 35+
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 2
Brown Thrasher 3
European Starling 10+
Ovenbird 2
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Hooded Warbler 1
Northern Parula 3
Yellow Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 23
Yellow-throated Warbler 11
Eastern Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 40+
White-throated Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 10
Red-winged Blackbird 4
Common Grackle 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 17
Baltimore Oriole 3
House Finch 9
Pine Siskin 20+
American Goldfinch 8
Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013
Location: Cincinnati Nature Center
Reporter: Tyler Ficker
Other Birders: MVCA Bird Club
Cincinnati Nature Center--Rowe Woods, Clermont, US-OH
Apr 27, 2013 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
4.0 mile(s)
66 species
Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 4
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) 1
Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) 1
Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) 4
Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) 2
Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) 2
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) 3
Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica) 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) 5
Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) 4
Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus) 1
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) 2
Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) 6
Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) 2
Great Crested Flycatcher (Myiarchus crinitus) 1
Yellow-throated Vireo (Vireo flavifrons) 1
Blue-headed Vireo (Vireo solitarius) 1
Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus) 2
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) 4
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 1
Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) 1
Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) 4
Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) 5
Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) 2
White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) 2
Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) 7
Golden-crowned Kinglet (Regulus satrapa) 1
Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) 1
Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) 7
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 10
Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) 1
Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) 1
European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) 4
Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) 1
Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla) 1
Blue-winged Warbler (Vermivora cyanoptera) 1
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER!!! (Vermivora chrysoptera) 1 (Seen and heard. Responded to my iPhone app and came in the open. very prominent golden wings.)
Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) 1
Orange-crowned Warbler (Oreothlypis celata) 1
Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) 1
Northern Parula (Setophaga americana) 1
Bay-breasted Warbler (Setophaga castanea) 1 Heard Distinctively. High pitch "teesi-teesi-tees-teesi"
Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia) 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler (Setophaga caerulescens) 1
Pine Warbler (Setophaga pinus) 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata) 1
Yellow-throated Warbler (Setophaga dominica) 1
Prairie Warbler (Setophaga discolor) 1
Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens) 1
Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) 2
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) 4
Field Sparrow (Spizella pusilla) 6
Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum) 1
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) 5
White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) 2
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 6
Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea) 1
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) 5
Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) 1
Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) 5
Orchard Oriole (Icterus spurius) 1
Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) 1
House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) 5
American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) 2
Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013
Location: New Haven Rd. at Hamilton-Cleves Rd.
Reporter: David Brinkman
Other Birders:
1 Immature Peregrine Falcon diving at a swallow. Swallows present, but not counted today, were Barn, Cliff and Rough-winged. Yesterday I estimated 30+ Cliff Swallows at this location.
Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: C Emerson
Other Birders:
7:30 a.m White-crowned Sparrows in force. Red-winged Blackbird, Cardinal, Common Yellowthroat, Tree Swallow, Northern rough-winged Swallow, Solitary Sandpiper, Warbling Vireo, Blue Gray Gnatcatcher, American Goldfinch, Eastern Bluebird, Orchard Oriole, Baltimore Oriole, Brown Headed Cowbird, Purple Finch, Carolina Chickadee, Carolina Wren, House Wren, Blue-winged Warbler, Brown Creeper, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Mallard, Great Blue Heron, Blue-winged Teal, Great Horned Owl and 2 juveniles, Prothonotary Warbler, Northern Mockingbird, Starling, Song Sparrow, Barn Swallow, Mourning Dove
Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013
Location: Spring Grove C.
Reporter: Maddie Varias
Other Birders: mom
Wood Duck- 1 male and 1 female
Mallard
Canada Goose
Turkey Vulture
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker- heard only
Chimney Swift
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
ACADIAN FLYCATCHER(FOY)- the bird was calling
Eastern Kingbird(FOY)
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Yellow-throated Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
American Robin
Wood Thrush(FOY)
Gray Catbird(FOY)
European Starling
Blue Jay
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Red-winged Blackbird
Baltimore Oriole(FOY)
Northern Cardinal
Pine Siskin
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Chipping Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow- heard only
Song Sparrow
Date: Saturday, May 25, 2013
Location: Cncinnati Nature Center
Reporter: Steve Bobonick
Other Birders: 13 CNC Bird Walk Participants
Today's list includes:
Trip List: Canada Goose, Turkey Vulture, Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker, Eastern Phoebe, Blue Jay, American Crow, Tree Swallow, Carolina Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, White-breasted Nuthatch, Carolina Wren, House Wren, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Wood Thrush, American Robin, Blue-winged Warbler, Northern Parula, Magnolia Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Eastern Towhee, Chipping Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Northern Cardinal, Red-winged Blackbird, Brown-headed Cowbird, Orchard Oriole, Baltimore Oriole, American Goldfinch
Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013
Location: Home near Owensville
Reporter: Jo Johnstone
Other Birders:
We still have at least 12 pine siskins coming everyday. Also have a male rose-breasted grosbeak that showed up several days ago.
Date: Friday, April 26, 2013
Location: Winton Woods lake edge behind Winton Centre
Reporter: Jerry Lippert
Other Birders: none
This evening while cutting net lanes for the WW Birding Festival banding nets that will be utilized at tomorrow's bird banding station (see today's Message Board post and invitation on this topic), I got to see lots of birds that hopefully will get banded tomorrow! This area is always crawling with Yellow-rumped and Palm Warblers at the end of April, and tonight was no exception. Sightings: Prothonotary Warbler (1), Yellow-rumped Warbler (15), Palm Warbler (13), Kingbird (1)(FOY for me), Swamp Sparrow (2), Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (4), Song Sparrow (5), Great Blue Heron (4), Dark-eyed Junco (1).
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Location: Sharon Woods near Sharon Centre
Reporter: Jerry Lippert
Other Birders: none
On Tuesday, April 23rd, saw my first of the year Indigo Buntings--a brilliant male and a female feeding in a lawn area near the road bridge over Sharon Creek near Sharon Centre.
Date: Friday, April 26, 2013
Location: Middle Creek Co. Park, Boone County, Kentucky
Reporter: Loran Gibson
Other Birders:
I happened upon a Kentucky Warbler this afternoon along the east side of Trail #6 in Middle Creek County Park. He was about a third of the way up the hill, just before the trail gets very steep. He was singing low in the underbrush, and allowed me to get quite close before flying up into a small tree, where he came into good view. Farther up Trail #6 at the top of the hill were a FOY for me yellow-throated vireo and a FOY wood thrush. These were three of 25 species recorded in Middle Creek Park today.
Date: Friday, April 26, 2013
Location: Anderson Center lake path
Reporter: Suzanne Clingman
Other Birders: Ayer Elementary 2nd Graders
Species list of birds seen with the kids:
Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Mallard
Spotted Sandpiper
Rough-winged Swallow
Yellow Warbler
Phoebe
Hairy Woodpecker
Song Sparrow
Cardinal
Robin
Carolina Wren
Turkey Vulture
Blue Jay
Starling
Date: Friday, April 26, 2013
Location: home (SR132&SR131)
Reporter: Lee Gruber
Other Birders:
mid morning-Kentucky warbler singing and hopping around, Louisiana waterthrush in the puddles, lots of pretty yellow rump warblers and Blue Gray Gnatcatchers (do they look bluer this year?)
Date: Friday, April 26, 2013
Location: Crooked Run Nature Preserve
Reporter: Chris Clingman
Other Birders: Suzanne Clingman
Four Great Egrets hanging out in the backwater area yesterday and this morning. Two were seen in the wetland of the adjacent Chilo Lock 34 Park.
Other sightings of interest Rose Breasted Grosbeak, Common Yellowthroat, Chimney Swifts. And two beaver.
Date: Friday, April 26, 2013
Location: Avoca Park
Reporter: Kathi Hutton
Other Birders:
Noon to 1pm. Lunch time walk down the path to the river. Lots of Yellow-rumped Warblers singing all along trail, Northern Paulas in the treetops, at least 3 PALM WARBLERS (my FOY) and the usual suspects.
Date: Sunday, April 21, 2013
Location: Shawnee State Forest
Reporter: Ron Kolde
Other Birders: Tim Kolde
Belated report due to business travel this week.
Notable was a male Blackpoll Warbler. Super early but had good looks at eye level for about 15 seconds. In fact early in the day, warblers found on ridge tops were all in smaller tress and brush. Cerulean, Worm-eating, Hooded, Louisiana Waterthrush, Yellow-throated, American Redstart, Blue-winged, Black and White, Tennessee, Yellow-rumped.
Vireos were White-eyed, Red-eyed, Yellow-throated and Blue-headed.
Only a single Scarlet Tanager.
We had some great looks at Broad-winged Hawks (4), and a single Ruffed Grouse perched in a small tree off of the west end of Forest Road 2. There was a single Osprey at Roosevelt Lake.
Date: Friday, April 26, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: C Emerson
Other Birders:
A Blue Grosbeak spotted perched along the road back to the boat launch. The bird gave me a 10 second look and flew into the field. A fellow birder with a smart phone played the Prothonotary Warlber call and the male responded by flying back and forth over our heads claiming his territory. A Kodak moment for sure! Also spotted Barn Swallow, Eastern Meadowlark, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler,White-throated Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Titmouse, Northern Mockingbird, C Wren, Belted Kingfisher, Great Blue Heron
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Location: Beechwood Farms, Clermont County
Reporter: eric burkholder
Other Birders:
Not my sighting. There is a report on e-bird that a Swallow-tail Kite was seen today for five minutes over Beechwood Farms in Clermont County. I have no idea where Beechwood Farms is located in Clermont County.
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Location: Winton Woods & Sharon Woods
Reporter: Jason Cade
Other Birders:
Went for an afternoon of birding today. The winner between the 2 parks was clearly Sharon Woods as it was much more active and provided me several new birds for the year. Here are highlights from each park.
Winton Woods: 1 accomodating Northern Parula, 1 singing Louisiana Waterthrush, lots of Yellow-rumps
Winton Woods Settling Pond: 1 Green Heron, 3 Bluebirds, 1 Palm Warbler
Sharon Woods: 2 Broad-winged Hawks (chasing each other), 1 Great-crested Flycatcher, 1 Blue-headed Vireo, 1 Red-eyed Vireo, 1 Louisiana Waterthrush, 1 Tennessee Warbler (female), 3 Palm Warblers, lots more Yellow-rumps, 2 Yellow-throated Warblers, 1 Black-throated Green Warbler (the only one that was heard only; try as I might he just wouldn't show himself), 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak, 2 Indigo Buntings
Great birding!
Date: Monday, April 22, 2013
Location: Sharon Woods Lone Oak Meadow and Gorge
Reporter: Jerry Lippert
Other Birders: Erich Baumgardner in evening
A late post from 4/22: On a lunch break on Monday, 4/22, found a Ruby-crowned Kinglet and a Yellow-throated Vireo at Lone Oak Meadow picnic area. Later that evening with Erich Baumgardner in the Gorge area woods, we found more Ruby-crowned Kinglets (2), Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (3), Eastern Phoebe (2), and what seems like a very early female Black-and-White Warbler that gave us nice looks.
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Location: French Park
Reporter: Jim Rettig
Other Birders:
Swainson's Thrush and the usual 20 or so. No warblers, 34 degrees.
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Location: Ninnichuck Rd (East Fork)
Reporter: Kathi Hutton
Other Birders:
Turkey Vulture
Cooper's Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Blue-winged Warbler
Northern Parula
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Cardinal
Eastern Towhee
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Location: Bantam Rd, north (East Fork)
Reporter: Kathi Hutton
Other Birders:
Great Blue Heron
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
NORTHERN BOBWHITE - 1M, 1F
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
White-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Blue-winged Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Cardinal
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Brown-headed Cowbird
American Goldfinch
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Location: Williamsburg wetlands (East Fork)
Reporter: Kathi Hutton
Other Birders:
Great Blue Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Hooded Merganser - F
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker - pair
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
Tree Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
American Robin
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Eastern Towhee
Field Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
American Goldfinch
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Location: Home (Ross)
Reporter: Doug Robinson
Other Birders:
Rose Breasted Grosbeak stopped by in the back yard. 1st one of the year.
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Location: Armleder
Reporter: C Emerson
Other Birders:
This morning looking for the Prothonotary Warbler in the fog near the canoe launch. Spotted the female up high. As I watched her jump from branch to branch and call out, the male appeared behind me up about 10 ft. away and began his song. Also spotted a Palm Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler and a Yellow Warbler after the fog lifted. A Solitary Sandpiper along the river. Great birding today.
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Location: Blue Ash
Reporter: Brian Herriott
Other Birders:
Male Hooded Warbler in the yard this morning singing.
Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Location: Magrish
Reporter: john zahnen
Other Birders:
1:30 to 2 PM. Drizzly. Place loaded with chipping sparrows and has a few w.crowned sparrows still there. Also saw Tennessee, prothonatory, yellow-rump,black & white, and many palm warblers. Two gnatcatchers, 2 w.b. nuthatches, both house & carolina wrens. 1 wood duck. Alas no orioles.
Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Location: Milford - Miami Woods
Reporter: Jan Watkins
Other Birders:
FOS: Ruby Throated Hummingbird about 15 min. ago. There was a touch-down about almost immediately after I cleaned and re-filled my feeders.
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Location: Madeira
Reporter: Jan Watkins
Other Birders: Reporter: Jan Watkins for Mary & John
1 male Rose-breasted Grosbeak at feeder.
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Location: Williamsburg Wetland
Reporter: Bill Stanley
Other Birders: Jim and Steve
1 Black-throated Green Warbler in the morning and at least 4 Bobwhite around noon.
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Location: Home, New Richmond, OH (Monroe Twp.)
Reporter: Donald Morse Jr.
Other Birders:
Still have a few Pine Siskins in the yard. They may nest here again this year.
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Location: Withrow Nature Preserve
Reporter: mark bogosian
Other Birders:
Observed a Hooded Warbler for about 20 minutes just off the Old Farm Loop trail.
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Location: Blue Ash
Reporter: Brian Herriott
Other Birders:
Had a singing Blue-winged Warbler in my back yard this afternoon. Also the Ruby-throated Hummingbird has returned.
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Location: Our house- Kenwood
Reporter: Liz Rising
Other Birders: Ethan Rising
There is an orange- pigmented House Finch instead of red. Just thought that was interesting...
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Location: Fairview Park
Reporter: Evan Leon
Other Birders:
Had a lifer Orange-Crowned Warbler at the first overlook at Fairview Park this morning around 10am. Heard it and was unsure of the call. It reminded me of the Orange-Crowned so I played it on my phone and the lil fella popped up and sang right back.
Overall good morning for passerines.
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Location: East Miami River Rd. Gravel Pits; Colerain Twp
Reporter: Paul Wharton
Other Birders:
2 Lark Sparrows were seen and heard at their traditional nesting area in western Colerain Township this morning. They were not there on Sunday. Other interesting birds in the immediate area included 3 N. Parula, 2 Yellow-throated Warblers, 1 Prairie Warbler, 6 Yellow-rumped Warblers, 1 Yellow-throated Vireo, 3 White-eyed Vireos, 1 Scarlet Tanager, 1 Baltimore Oriole, 10+ Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, 10+ Field Sparrows, and 3 Wild Turkeys. Blue Grosbeaks were not found, but are regular nesters in the area, so they are probably just not back yet. Indigo Buntings were also still absent.
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Location: Adams County, yard along Ohio Brush Creek
Reporter: Mark Zloba
Other Birders: none
Resident summer tanager arrived over night. I was surprised to see it feeding at my suet feeder this morning. Must have been hungry. Rose-breasted grosbeaks have been at sunflower feeder all weekend. A dozen purple finches are still feeding here as well.
I know folks have been discussing Chuck-wills-widows on message board, so for the record, Adams County Chuck-wills-widows were heard calling last night (Mon. April 22). First night I've heard them here this year.
Date: Monday, April 22, 2013
Location: Sharon Woods
Reporter: Erich Baumgardner
Other Birders: Jerry, Madeline and Levi Lippert
We did a short hike around Sharon and found 3 RT Hawks (2 soaring, one on nest), T Vultures, a female B&W Warbler, RC Kinglet, a L Waterthrush, and a B Creeper; as well as the usuals.
Date: Monday, April 22, 2013
Location: Little Miami Bike Trail
Reporter: Erich Baumgardner
Other Birders:
Birding by bike day - rode the trail between Kings Mill and Xenia. Highlights include dozens of BG Gnatcatchers, at least 15 N Parula, several YT Warblers, several YR Warblers and a Yellow Warbler.
Date: Monday, April 22, 2013
Location: Wilder, KY
Reporter: Maddie Varias
Other Birders:
A few Prairie Warblers were singing. I do not know how many there were.
Date: Monday, April 22, 2013
Location: Sycamore Park, Batavia
Reporter: Kathi Hutton
Other Birders:
Highlights included:
3 warblers - Yellow-rumped, Yellow-throated, and Northern Parula
4 raptors - Red-tailed, Red-shouldered, Broad-winged and Cooper's Hawks
Wood Thrush (heard only)
Blue Jay and Carolina Chickadee both carrying nesting material (found the Blue jay nest, not the chickadee's)
Wildflowers - lots of Virginia Bluebells, violets, also both Nodding and Sessile Trilium, still some Spring Beauties. Pulled a bunch of garlic mustard along the paved walking path. Didn't see any on the nature trail. (Yay!)
Date: Monday, April 22, 2013
Location: Felicity
Reporter: Kathi Hutton
Other Birders:
FOY Eastern Kingbird at home when I got back from birding Sycamore Park
Date: Monday, April 22, 2013
Location: Armleder south end
Reporter: Jim Rettig
Other Birders:
This AM Orchard Oriole, Hooded Warbler.
And at French Park Common Yellowthroat and Palm Warbler.
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