Creature Feature

We heard the “thunk” as something hit the window. “Honey, check outside, I think a bird hit the window again.” But by the time one of us got around to it, there was no sign of the supposedly stunned bird. Sometimes, though, we’d see a Cooper’s Hawk winging away. Only later would we learn that […]

It was a chilly March morning at Clifton Gorge, where we had moved up our April trip to see if we could find very early spring wildflowers. There were lots of early Hepatica and a few other species, but the big surprise was Louisiana Waterthrushes. Several were singing along the full-flowing and noisy Little Miami

Columbus Audubon thanks Laura Dornan and the Canton Audubon Society for their kind permission to republish this article. An apt description for why this Arctic breeder comes down to the large grasslands, hay-fields, and reclaimed strip mines of eastern Ohio every winter. They begin to arrive in Ohio the third week of October through the

Columbus Audubon thanks Laura Dornan and the Canton Audubon Society for their kind permission to republish this article. One of the joys of backyard birding on a wintry day in Ohio is seeing White-throated Sparrows at your ground feeders. This attractive and easy-to-identify sparrow breeds in the coniferous and mixed forests of Canada, New England,

Columbus Audubon thanks Laura Dornan and the Canton Audubon Society for their kind permission to republish this article. Some ducks that whistle rather than quack, among them male Greater and Lesser Scaup, American Wigeon and Blue-winged Teal, are in fact ducks. But whistling-ducks in the genus Dendrocygna, or “tree swan”, are more closely related to