Columbus Birding is a blog featuring Rob Thorn, well-known Columbus birder.
“Darn”, I thought, “it looks pretty threatening. I’d better hurry through this.” I had driven out to the restored wetlands at Battelle-Darby Metro Park, hoping for some fall shorebirds that had been reported there, as well as some of the early waterfowl that always showed up at this golden spot. However, the sky to the…
Where do the migrants hide during the day? And why don’t pewees go there? We’ve all had that experience: a great morning chock full of migrant birds, but come 10:00 or 11:00 AM and it’s like somebody flipped the ‘Off’ switch. Where did all those migrants go? Landbird migrants tend to disappear in the late…
It was an amazingly predictable occurrence this Summer. I would be visiting some dense forest patch along one of our creeks and hear or see a Black & White Warbler. Sure, I’ve seen them in summer around Columbus before, but never in the numbers of this year. In June alone I had 10 different sightings….
I was birding around north Hoover back in late June, and I had to stop and confront myself. I had thought to go out to the Hoover Boardwalk, but some part of me said, ”Don’t Bother. The water will be deep and the birds will be few.” I overruled the thought and went anyway, and…
Mention “Blacklick Woods” to most central Ohio birders, or even non-birders, and they’ll immediately think of the swamp forest and associated Nature Center. It’s a natural response, since that’s where most of the trails and picnic areas are located, and where most of the Metropark programs occur here. There is however, more to the park…
I heard the thin ascending call long before I could find the bird. I was walking around Bareis Preserve, an overgrown meadow along Walnut Creek in Canal Winchester, and heard the rising ‘ zee zee zee zee zee zee zee zee zee’. Tthe distinctive call hit me like a slap: Prairie Warbler, and it wasn’t…
