by Rob Thorn They’re the birds that seem to fascinate everyone. Owls. Perhaps it’s their forward-facing eyes, maybe its their mysterious nocturnal lives, but most folks will stop to look for owls. I used to think that they could never be more than a rare curiosity in Columbus, with the Barred Owl families of Blacklick […]
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The ground held a faint trace of snow as we wandered through Killdeer Plains that morning, looking for winter specialties. Raptors were already on our radar, with lots of Red-tailed hawks and Kestrels, but a slender buteo hawk sitting on a tiny sprig out in a field caught our eye. Just by the behavior alone,
By Rob Thorn The mud made a crunching sound underfoot, with some parts of it frozen for the first few inches. It was a freezing December day as we walked around the mudflats at the upper end of Hoover Reservoir, mostly looking for waterfowl and gulls. Some of the shallow pools had iced over, but
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
First documented nesting of American White Pelicans in Ohio Ohio has a new breeding bird species. Observers discovered and documented American White Pelicans nesting on a small island in Sandusky Bay last spring and summer. Bruce Buckingham and Laura Kearns, of the Ohio Division of Wildlife, wrote about their finding in a recent issue of
