Your Week In Review

For the week of April 29th, through May 5th, this is your week in review.

28   That’s the number of total Warblers identified this week throughout the tri-state area. One might call this a fall-out, and you’d probably be correct in that statement. Once again it was another phenomenal week birding. With some of the heavy rains we’ve been experiencing, the effects in regards to the different species of birds is apparent.

Area parks where birders visited include Withrow Nature Preserve, Boone County Cliffs,  Ault Park, Spring Grove Cemetery, Burnett Woods, Miami Whitewater Forest, Shawnee Lookout Park, Ellis Lake/ West Chester Wetlands, Smith Tract Preserve, Magrish Riverlands Preserve, Armleder Park, California Woods, East Fork S.P., Chilo Lock #34, Mt. Airy Forest, Fernald Preserve, and Ferbach-Werner Nature Preserve.

Neighborhoods reporting in include: Newtown, Clifton, Westwood, Lost Bridge, Owensville, West Chester, New Richmond, Milford, Price Hill, Kenwood, and Williamsburg.

Notable birds for the week include;

Accipitriformes

1. Broad-winged Hawk
2. Cooper’s Hawk
3. Red-tailed Hawk
4. Ferruginous Hawk
5. Osprey

Falconiformes

1. American Kestrel

Charadriiformes

1. Wilson’s Snipe
2. Solitary Sandpiper
3. Pectoral Sandpiper
4. Greater Yellowlegs
5. Lesser Yellowlegs
6. Long-billed Dowitcher
7. Short-billed Dowitcher
8. Spotted sandpiper
9. Least Sandpiper
10. Semipalmated sandpiper
11. Dunlin
12. Semipalmated Plover

Piciformes

1. Hairy Woodpecker
2. Downy Woodpecker
3. Pileated Woodpecker
4. Red-bellied Woodpecker
5. Northern Flicker

Gruiformes

1. Sora
2. Virginia Rail

Caprimulgiformes

1. Common Nighthawk

Passeriformes

1. Red-eyed Vireo
2. Warbling Vireo
3. Blue-headed Vireo
4. Bell’s Vireo
5. Acadian Flycatcher
6. Least Flycatcher
7. Willow Flycatcher
8. Great-creasted Flycatcher
9. Wood Thrush
10. Hermit Thrush
11. Veery
12. Eastern Phoebe
13. Grasshopper Sparrow
14. Savannah Sparrow
15. Henslow’s Sparrow
16. White-throated Sparrow
17. White-crowned Sparrow
18. Chipping Sparrow
19. Song Sparrow
20. Lincoln Sparrow
21. Summer Tanager
22. Scarlet Tanager
23. Rose-breasted grosbeak
24. Blue Grosbeak
25. Baltimore Oriole
26. Orchard Oriole
27. Sedge Wren
28. Dickcissel
29. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
30. Bobolink
31. Cedar Waxwing
32. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
33. Blue-winged Warbler
34. Black and White Warbler
35. Nashville warbler
36. Cerulean Warbler
37. Yellow Warbler
38. Pine Warbler
39. Yellow-throated Warbler
40. Yellow-rumped Warbler
41. Black-throated Green Warbler
42. Prothonotary Warbler
43. Chestnut-sided Warbler
44. Palm Warbler
45. Magnolia Warbler
46. Tennessee Warbler
47. Northern Waterthrush
48. Louisiana Waterthrush
49. Hooded Warbler
50. American Redstart
51. Blackpoll Warbler
52. Wilson’s Warbler
53. Cape May Warbler
54. Prairie warbler
55. Kentucky Warbler
56. Canada warbler
57. Black-throated Blue warbler
58. Yellow-breasted Chat
59. Ovenbird

Your Week In Review

For the week of April 22nd, through April 28th, this is your week in review.

Another busy birding week brought birders out in force once again. At times like these I seem to do more blogging than actual birding. I’d be birding tonight if it wasn’t for the workshop tomorrow and all the stuff I have to ready. So I’ll stay home and compile this extremely long list of parks and neighborhoods where birders reported from. So without further ado here’s the list of the parks where birders visited this week: Gilmore Ponds, East Fork S.P., Magrish Riverland Preserve, Armleder Park, Avoca Park, Hueston Woods S.P., Brookville Lake, Winton Woods Park, Lost Bridge, Smith Tract Park, Campbell Lake Preserve, Cincinnati Nature Center, Shawnee Lookout, Burnett Woods Park, Caesar Creek Gorge, and Ellis Lake/ West Chester Wetlands.

Neighborhoods reporting in include: Winton Place, Deer Park, Felicity, East Walnut Hills, Goshen, Newtown, Anderson Twp., Newport, Kenwood, Clifton, Southern Clermont County, Franklin County, Finnytown, Monroe, Sharonville, Latonia, and Westwood.

Notable birds for the week include:

Accipitriformes

1. Bald Eagle
2. Broad-winged Hawk
3. Osprey
4. Cooper’s Hawk
5. Red-tailed Hawk

Pelecaniformes

1. American Bittern
2. Black-crowned Night Heron

Charadriiformes

1. Spotted Sandpiper
2. Least Sandpiper
3. Semipalmated Sandpiper
4. Pectoral Sandpiper
5. Greater Yellowleg
6. Lesser Yellowleg
7. Dunlin
8. Willet
9. Solitary Sandpiper
10. Short-billed Dowitcher
11. Long-billed Dowitcher
12. Bonaparte’s Gull
13. Wilson’s Snipe
14. Common Tern
15. Caspian Tern
16. Forester’s Tern

Anseriformes

1. Blue-winged Teal
2. America Wigeon
3. Northern Shoveler

Strigiformes

1. Barred Owl

Piciformes

1. Northern Flicker
2. Pileated Woodpecker
3. Hairy Woodpecker

Gruiformes

1. Virginia Rail
2. Sora

Apodiformes

1. Chimney Swift
2. Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Passeriformes

1. Acadian Flycatcher
2. Great-crested Flycatcher
3. Least Flycatcher
4. Wood Thrush
5. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
6. Blue Grosbeak
7. Orchard Oriole
8. Baltimore Oriole
9. Pine Siskins
10. Red-eyed Vireo
11. White-eyed Vireo
12. Blue-headed Vireo
13. Warbling Viroe
14. Yellow-throated Vireo
15. Rusty Blackbird
16. Eastern Phoebe
17. Eastern Kingbird
18. Horned Lark
19. Bobolink
20. Savannah Sparrow
21. White-throated Sparrow
22. White-crowned Sparrow
23. Meadow Lark
24. Lark Sparrow
25. Vesper Sparrow
26. Swamp Sparrow
27. Grasshopper Sparrow
28. Field Sparrow
29. Scarlet Tanager
30. Summer Tanager
31. Indigo Bunting
32. Palm Warbler
33. Northern Parula
34. Prothonotary Warbler
35. Common Yellowthroat
36. Yellow-throated Warbler
37. Nashville Warbler
38. Cerulean Warbler
39. Kentucky Warbler
40. Blackburnian Warbler
41. American Redstart
42. Black-throated Green Warbler
43. Prairie Warbler
44. Louisiana Waterthrush
45. Northern Waterthrush
46. Yellow-breasted Chat
47. Ovenbird
48. Worm-eating warbler
49. Black and White Warbler
50. Blackpoll Warbler
51. Pine Warbler
52. Hooded Warbler
53. Tennessee Warbl
54. Barn Swallow
55. Cliff Swallow
56. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
57. Tree Swallow
58. Purple Martin

For a detailed listing of the weeks postings, please go to www.cincinnatibirds.com

So as we end this week in review, keep on birding, and don’t forget to post your sightings.

 

Your Week In Review

For the week of April 15th, through April 21st, this is your week in review.

Spring migration is in full bloom as more and more of our beautiful Spring migrants arrive around the Tri-state in our typical hotspots. But you better be prepared to know your bird calls since the majority of the trees are leafed out. Being able to ID a Warbler in the top of a totally leafed out tree will require both sight and sound skills. The Ferruginous Hawk is still being seen over at CVG with no sign of it leaving, so if you’ve not seen this bird as of yet, plan a trip before it leaves. We also had 48 hours of excitement as a Black-necked Stilt was sighted at Ellis Lake. And once again this blogger was able to see it and get some pictures as well. Also Caesar Creek had it’s own excitement as both Lesser Black-backed Gull and Surf Scoters were seen earlier this week.

This has got to be the largest “location” list I’ve typed for this column ever and this is just a prelude of what it”ll be like in weeks to come. So to quote Samuel L. Jackson in the movie Jurassic Park, “Hold on to your butts”, here’s the list of where our birders visited this week. Shawnee Lookout, Crooked Run Nature Preserve, Fairview Park, Ault Park, Magrish Riverland Preserve, California Woods, East Fork S.P., Caesar Creek S.P., Hueston Woods S.P., Cowan Lake S.P., The Oxbow, Miami Whitewater Forest, Winton Woods, Smith Tract Park, Fernald Preserve, Eden Park, Spring Valley Wildlife Area, CVG, Ellis Lake/ West Chester Wetlands, Armleder Park, Sharon Woods, Grand Valley, Avoca Trailhead Park, Lake Isabella, and Glenwood Gardens.

Neighborhoods reporting in include: Felicity, Kenwood, Landen, Lawrenceburg Road, Milford, Newtown, Clifton, Maderia, United American Cemetery, Owensville, Oxford, West Wood, Morrow, and Williamsburg.

Notable birds for the week include:

Accipitriformes

1. Bald Eagle
2. Ferruginous Hawk
3. Broad-winged Hawk
4. Osprey
5. Sharp-shinned Hawk

Falconiformes

1. American Kestrel

Pelecaniformes

1. Great Egret
2. Green Heron

Charadriiformes

1. Pectoral Sandpiper
2. Black-necked Stilt
3. Wilson’s Snipe
4. Solitary Sandpiper
5. Lesser Yellowleg
6. Greater Yellowleg
7. Spotted Sandpiper
8. Dunlin
9. Short-billed Dowitcher
10. Forster’s Tern
11. Caspian tern
12. Least Tern
13. Lesser Black-backed Gull
14. Bonaparte’s Gull
15. Semi-palmated Plover

Anseriformes

1. Ring-necked Duck
2. Surf scoter
3. Wood Duck
4. Green-winged Teal
5. Blue-winged Teal
6. Red-breasted Merganser
7. Northern Shoveler

Strigiformes

1. Great Horned Owl

Piciformes

1. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
2. Pileated Woodpecker
3. Downy Woodpecker
4. hairy Woodpecker
5. Red-bellied Woodpecker
6. Red-headed Woodpecker

Gruiformes

1. Virginia Rail

Galliformes

1. Wild Turkey

Apodiformes

1. Chimney Swift
2. Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Podicipediformes

1. Horned Grebe
2. Pied-billed Grebe

Passeriformes

1. Great-crested Flycatcher
2. Horned Lark
3. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
4. Orchard Oriole
5. Baltimore Oriole
6. Brown Thrasher
7. Eastern Kingbird
8. Eastern Phoebe
9. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
10. Wood Thrush
11. Rusty Blackbird
12. Purple Finch
13. Scarlet Tanager
14. Yellow-throated Vireo
15. White-eyed Vireo
16. Red-eyed Vireo
17. Warbling Vireo
18. Brown Creeper
19. Red-breasted Nuthatch
20. Tree Swallow
21. Barn Swallow
22. Norther Rough-winged Swallow
23. Nashville Warbler
24. Yellow-rumped Warbler
25. Common Yellowthroat
26. Cerulean Warbler
27. Prothonotary Warbler
28. Yellow-breasted Chat
29. Kentucky Warbler
30. Black-throated Green warbler
31. Louisiana Waterthrush
32. Black and White Warbler
33. Northern Parula
34. Tennessee Warbler
35. Yellow-throated warbler
36. Pine Warbler
37. Blue-winged Warbler
38. Prairie Warbler
39. Palm Warbler
40. Houose Wren
41. Field Sparrow
42. Chipping Sparrow
43. Savannah Sparrow
44. vesper Sparrow
45. Song Sparrow
46. Swamp Sparrow
47. White-throated Sparrow
48. White-crowned Sparrow

For a detailed listing of the weeks postings, please go to www.cincinnatibirds.com

So as we end this week in review, keep on birding, and don’t forget to post your sightings.

 

Your Week In Review

For the week of April 8th, through April 14th, this is your week in review.

Migrants are on a roll, and this week was showing great promise for some good Waders and Warblers influx. Despite the cooler, or what I should say is average temperatures, and drier than normal conditions, birders are reporting from all over the Tri-state.  The top story is still the Ferruginous Hawk, still being seen over at CVG. And with this probably being a “first” for the State of Kentucky, the Hawk has made it to the ABA Blog. So don’t forget to check out their blog and read up on this now famous bird . Better yet, go check it out for yourself before it’s too late.

Area parks where birders visited include: Avoca Trailhead Park, California Woods, Cincinnati Nature Center, Spring Grove Cemetery, East Fork S.P., Cowan Lake S.P., Rocky Fork S.P., Indian Creek Wildlife Area, Paint Creek S.P., Armleder Park, Fairview Park, Sharon Woods Park, Spring Valley Wildlife Area, Versailles S.P., Kelly Nature Preserve, Lost Bridge, Miami Whitewater Forest, Shawnee Lookout Park, and Crooked Run Nature Preserve.

Neighborhoods reporting in include: Felicity, Union Twp, and Wyoming, Beavercreek, Sycamore Twp., Kilby Road, Covington, and Kenwood.

Notable birds for the week include:

Accipitriformes

1. Bald Eagle
2. Ferruginous Hawk
3. Broad-winged Hawk
4. Red-shouldered Hawk
5. Red-tailed Hawk
6. Cooper’s Hawk
7. Osprey

Falconiformes

1. American Kestrel

Charadriiformes

1. Solitary Sandpiper
2. Pectoral Sandpiper
3. Greater Yellowleg
4. Lesser Yellowleg
5. Wilson’s Snipe
6. Bonaparte’s Gull
7. Dunlin

Podicipediformes

1. Horned Grebe

Piciformes

1. Pileated Woodpecker
2. Northern Flicker
3. Red-bellied Woodpecker
4. Downy Woodpecker

Anseriformes

1. Ruddy Duck
2. Greater Scaup
3. Lesser Scaup
4. Northern Shoveler
5. Wood Duck
6. Blue-winged Teal
7. Common Goldeneye
8. Bufflehead
9. Ring-necked Duck
10. Hooded Merganser
11. Red-breasted Merganser
12. Surf Scoter

Gaviiformes

1. Common Loon

Galliformes

1. Wild Turkey

Passeriformes

1. Eastern Meadowlark
2. Blue-winged Warbler
3. Prothonotary Warbler
4. Pine Warbler
5. Prairie Warbler
6. Northern Parula
7. Louisiana Waterthrush
8. Yellow-rumped Warbler
9. Black & White Warbler
10. Rusty Blackbird
11. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
12. Warbling Vireo
13. Blue-headed Vireo
14. Orchard Oriole
15. Eastern Towhee
16. Barn Swallow
17. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
18. Bank Swallow
19. Tree Swallow
20. Field Sparrow
21. Song Sparrow
22. Chipping Sparrow
23. White-throated Sparrow
24. Grasshopper Sparrow
25. Dark-eyed Junco
26. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
27. Brown Thrasher
28. Eastern Phoebe
29. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
30. Warbling Vireo
31. White-eyed Vireo
32. Savannah Sparrow

For a detailed listing of the weeks postings, please go to www.cincinnatibirds.com

So as we end this week in review, keep on birding, and don’t forget to post your sightings.

Your Week In Review

For the week of March 25th, through March 31st, this is your week in review.

Early migrants are still the dominate birds, making a strong showing as we continue with the unseasonably warmer weather. Wading birds are starting to been seen in small numbers in the usual hotspots familiar to tri-state birders. There’s so much good bird action going on that this blogger is having a difficult time keeping up. This could turn out to be a fast and furious Spring, that I’m sure everyone is excited about.

Area parks where our birders visited include: Caesar Creek S.P., East Fork S.P., Hueston Woods S.P., Miami Whitewater Forest, Fernald Preserve, Grand Valley, Spring Valley Wildlife Area, Sharon Woods, Winton Woods, Ellis Lake/ West Chester Wetlands, Chilo Lock #34, Armleder Park, Gulley Park and California Woods.

Neighborhoods reporting in include: Felicity, Newtown, Clifton, Goshen, New Richmond, and Miami Twp.

Notable birds for the week include:

Accipitriformes

1. Rough-legged Hawk
2. Northern Harrier
3. Red-tailed Hawk

Falconiformes

1. American Kestrel

Strigiformes

1. Barred Owl
2. Barn Owl

Charadriiformes

1. Pectoral Sandpiper
2. Greater Yellowleg
3. Lesser Yellowleg
4. Wilson’s Snipe
5. American Woodcock

Ciconiiformes

1. American Bittern

Gruiformes

1. Sora

Pelecaniformes

1. Great Egret

Piciformes

1. Northern Flicker
2. Red-bellied Woodpecker
3. Downy Woodpecker
4. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Gaviiformes

1. Common Loon

Anseriformes

1. Wood Duck
2. Northern Shoveler
3. Bufflehead
4. Blue-winged Teal
5. Red-breasted Merganser
6. Hooded Merganser
7. American Wigeon
8. Red Head
9. Ring-necked Duck
10. Ruddy Duck
11. Surf Scoter
12. Gadwall
13. Greater White-fronted Goose

Passeriformes

1. Blue-headed Vireo
2. Yellow-throated Warbler
3. Louisiana Waterthrush
4. Barn Swallow
5. Hermit Thrush
6. Tree Swallow
7. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
8. Brown Thrasher
9. Eastern Phoebe
10. Yellow-rumped Warbler
11. Marsh Wren

For a detailed listing of the weeks postings, please go to www.cincinnatibirds.com

So as we end this week in review, keep on birding, and don’t forget to post your sightings.

Your Week In Review

For the week of March 18th, through March 24th, this is your week in review.

As we celebrate the return of Spring with unseasonably warmer temperatures, we as birders rejoice with the coming of our Spring birds. Birders are out in mass to revel in the latest arrivals from the South as they escape to various corners of the tri-state to find their own personal FOS species. One aspect of this early Spring that has me a little concerned is the leafing out of the trees. As the trees leaf out more and more, when the Wood Warblers finally arrive the difficulty in spotting them in such a thick, green canopy will test even the most experienced Warbler fanatic. I guess we’ll have to wait and see, won’t we.

Area parks that our birders visited include: Spring Grove Cemetery, California Woods, Brookville Lake, Winton Woods Park, Mitchell Memorial Woods, Crooked Run Nature Preserve, Fernald Preserve, Sharon Woods, .Caesar Creek S.P, Spring Valley Wildlife Area, East Fork S.P., and Armleder Park. Neighborhoods reporting in include Anderson Twp., Mason, Afton, Clifton and Felicity.

Notable birds for the week include:

Accipitriformes

1. Bald Eagle
2. Northern Harrier
3. Cooper’s Hawk
4. Red-tailed Hawk

Falconiformes

1. American Kestrel

Strigiformes

1. Barred Owl

Charadriiformes

1. Wilson’s Snipe

Podicipediformes

1. Horned Grebe
2. Pied-billed Grebe

Piciformes

1. Pileated Woodpecker
2. Northern Flicker
3. Hairy Woodpecker

Anseriformes

1. Gadwall
2. Northern Shoveler
3. Bufflehead
4. Red-breasted Merganser
5. Green-winged Teal
6. Blue-winged Teal
7. American Wigeon
8. Canvasback
9. Red Head
10. Lesser Scaup
11. Ring-necked Duck
12. Ruddy Duck
13. Hooded Merganser

Passeriformes

1. Eastern Towhee
2. Pine Siskin
3. House Wren
4. Song Sparrow
5. White-throated Sparrow
6. White-crowned Sparrow
7. Field Sparrow
8. Fox Sparrow
9. Savannah Sparrow
10. Vesper Sparrow
11. Chipping Sparrow
12. Louisiana Waterthrush
13. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
14. Tree Swallow
15. Pine warbler
16. Brown Creeper
17. Horned Lark
18. American Pipits
19. Eastern Phoebe
20. Brown thrasher

Gaviiformes

1. Common Loon

Gruiformes

1. Sandhill Crane

Galliformes

1. Wild Turkey

For a detailed listing of the weeks postings, please go to www.cincinnatibirds.com

So as we end this week in review, keep on birding, and don’t forget to post your sightings.