When the dust settles on the CBC season, we compilers often asked to summarize the count numbers and give some perspective to them. I’ve helmed the Columbus CBC for 7 years now, and have watched as the circle has ‘filled in’ with development, restricting our open areas to parks, riparian strips, and golf courses. In […]
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“Oh, I see that you have binoculars. Are you a bird watcher?”, asked the woman walking her dog down the snowy path in a Gahanna park. “Yes, but it’s been kind of a slow morning today, what with the deep snow and cold”, I replied. “Well”, she continued with a little tinge of excitement, “My
Winter Eagles over Columbus Read More »
If you’re reading this, chances are good that you’re sitting indoors at your computer or laptop, in a warm environment that stands in stark contrast to the cold outside. It’s not just the cold that makes lateFall-earlyWinter birding challenging; it’s the bitter wind that comes with it. This is a time of year (along
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Sometimes the least impressive places have a way of continually surprising me. One such area is the low-lying area along Blacklick Creek just north of Groveport. This is an area peripheral to 3-Creeks Park, east of the main part of the park. It’s just east of where Bixby Rd. crosses Hamilton Rd. It includes a
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One of the joys of Columbus is that the city spread so quickly and without much industrialization, that you can find pockets of natural habitats cheek-by-jowl with heavily-developed areas. For instance, the west side of Columbus, with its densely-packed old neighborhoods, is hardly the location one might expect to have a good natural area,
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As Fall migration shifts into its later stages, the emphasis falls on water- and field-birds. Waterfowl really push through in November and December, but already we’re finding field birds like kestrels & harriers, pipits, larks, sedge & marsh wrens, Common Yellowthroats, Palm & Orange-crowned Warblers, meadowlarks, and many sparrows. However, it can be a frustrating
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