Count Summary On December 20, 78 observers sponsored by CAS spent the day counting birds in different areas of Columbus, in a socially-distanced fashion! Unlike the prior year, we had cold enough weather to drive in a good diversity of waterfowl, but not cold enough to kill off quite a few unusual landbird stragglers. Twenty-seven
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The little sandpiper nimbly stepped through the puddles at the edge of Hoover Reservoir….. Rob Thorn tells us about this mysterious shorebird.
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Count Summary On December 15, 72 observers sponsored by CAS spent the day counting birds in different areas of Columbus. Relatively mild weather reduced the numbers of waterfowl, and a November freeze appeared to suppress numbers of lingering land birds. Fifteen teams were still able to push up totals of 74 species and 40,078 individual
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It’s late November. The leaves are (mostly) down. Fall migration is (mostly) done. Do you pack up your binoculars or book that ticket to Texas? Wait; there’s still plenty of life, and birding, in Ohio. Here’s a shortened list of several things to keep you birding into the cold months. 1.  Waterbirds. As our winters
Do you think that “the fall migration” is finished by early October? Rob Thorn discusses why it might not be — and why it’s not “the” migration.
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It’s early September, do you know where your shorebirds are? Sometimes it seems like the phrases ‘central Ohio’ and ‘shorebirds’ never really belong together. We’ve had such a dearth of decent shorebird spots for the last 5 years, that it’s hard to remember that this hasn’t always been the case. Shorebirds clearly migrate through here,
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