“The rush of warblers has mainly passed now, but the last of the blackpolls are marching through, and the northern thrushes, the oliveback and the graycheek, the rear guard of the migration, are hiding in the shadows. It is as this time of the year, when spring is in full bloom, when the countryside is brilliant […]
It was one of those miserable hot August days. The only upside, if it can be called that, was that the water levels at Hoover Reservoir had been dropping and exposing some mudflats. (Note: With Columbus’ increased growth, the Water Department doesn’t let this happen much anymore.) That’s good shorebird potential, and we slogged out to take
It was a cold April morning, long before most neotropical migrants arrive. We were looking and listening for one of the first real sounds of Spring in Ohio – a singing Yellow-throated Warbler (Setophaga dominica). These colorful little birds return much earlier than most warblers, and often start to set up territories along central Ohio
Many of you have had this experience: canoeing or walking the bank of a river or creek, we see a flash of blue and white and hear the dry rattle of a kingfisher….
We’d hiked along the woodland in southern Indiana in late fall, reveling in the piles of downed tree leaves. But here were green leaves, and they weren’t on trees. They were sprouting from the ground! Not only that, but they seemed to be in 2 varieties. One had closely spaced white veins running the length of
The migration of winter birds into our area often highlights hawks, owls, and finches; however, driving snow covered rural roads through Ohio’s farmland can be rewarded with flocks of Lapland Longspurs. This species is most often in association with Horned Larks,Snow Buntings, and American Pipits. The Lapland Longspur is a circumpolar species and is considered
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