It’s a tiny patch of green, really. Unless you were tuned into it, you’d walk right by it and never give it a second glance. In fact, thousands of OSU students do just that. The Jennings Hall habitat restoration is a half-acre with some native plantings smack dab in the middle of the main campus. […]
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It’s only Dec 1, and already reports of crossbills and siskins in central Ohio have been overwhelming. These winter invaders followed a strong Fall for Red-br. Nuthatches, many of which are still around, and Tree Sparrows, which seem to be everywhere. Despite the relatively mild weather so far, this could be one of the biggest
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“Something isn’t right here,” the woman said with a perplexed look on her face. Our group was birding Greenlawn Cemetery, and we’d just looked through an apparent group of Grackles. Most of us had already moved on, but she looked back at the Grackles, a few of which had dropped to the ground and were tussling with leaves and tree debris. “They don’t sound like Grackles,” she intoned. As it turned out, we had almost been fooled by the Midwest’s stealthiest winter resident, the Rusty Blackbird. Her initial comment was also prophetic about the species as well.
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It’s one of the most recognizable symbols in conservation: the flying Great Egret, symbol of the National Audubon Society, devised when the organization was lobbying to curtail the millinery trade. Most of you have probably also seen a live Great Egret as well, but have you stopped to think about how these essentially southern birds
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I saw the small bird out of the corner of my eye as it hovered only inches from my head, plucking insects from a budding branch. It was a ‘BTG’ or Black-throated Green Warbler; one of the more fearless migrants, and its closeness that spring morning took my breath away. Almost all local birders have
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2011 Columbus CBC Participants Work for Their Winter Birds Summary On December 18, 64 observers sponsored by CAS spent the day counting birds in different areas of Columbus. The weather was average for the date, being partly cloudy with a temperature between 26-35 ° F. The sky was lightly cloudy in the early morning, with
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