Columbus Audubon

It shouldn’t have happened. At least we shouldn’t have had to do it. We pride ourselves on birding in Ohio on our monthly trips. Admittedly that’s making a virtue of necessity, since from Columbus other states are a hefty distance away. But the good birds weren’t showing up in Ohio, and even the almost-good ones […]

Seventeen Avid Birders drove in a tight formation of five vehicles to Lake Erie once more on 8 Jan, hopeful despite southerly winds and a lack of encouraging news from others. Focusing scopes with one hand and drinking coffee with the other, we counted over a thousand waterfowl of fourteen species at frosty Wellington Reservoir.

The temperature finally dropped below 40 degrees for the last Avids trip of the millenium as seven hardy souls ventured northward in search of early winter birds. The day began at Woodlawn Cemetery in Toledo where scouting reports boasted of boreal irruptives like white-winged and red crossbills, pine siskins, and common redpolls. We were not

If I were asked by someone to describe a typical November Avid Birders trip, I would probably describe a cold, windy day along the central basin of Lake Erie looking over large expanses of water. Birds such as scoters, jaegers, oldsquaws, black-legged kittiwakes, and purple sandpipers would be the quarry. Ninety-nine times out of 100,

Thirteen Avid Birders ignored the weather and various sports spectacles on October 9 to look for birds of the season. It was a good time of year to hope for rare birds over the waters of Lake Erie – jaegers, odd gulls, etc – but prevailing southerly winds made them even less likely. Since it

The Avid Birders’ Labor Day trip had its laborious aspects. Nineteen of us drove through clouds that had dropped right down to the deck–as well as through a couple of stop signs we couldn’t see–up to the Lake at Maumee Bay SP. No buff-breasted sandpipers kept their appointments on the lawns there, and no migrants