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 February 26th, through March 3rd, this is your week in review.

When they say that March comes in like a Lion, they weren’t kidding. My heart felt sympathy goes out to all the victims of the recent tornado outbreak. Even in my little corner of Ohio, we had some pretty gnarly weather. And with this topsy-turvy weather, we had an average week of birding. Area parks where our birders visited include Grand Valley, Gunpowder Creek Nature Park, Mitchell Memorial Forest, Armleder Park, Miami Whitewater Forest, Crooked Run Nature Preserve, Lake Isabella, Caesar Creek S.P., and Fernald Preserve. Neighborhoods where birders reported from include Downtown Cincy., Loveland, Campbell County Ky., New Richmond, South Lebanon, Hebron Ky., and Williamsburg.

Notable birds for the week include:

Accipitriformes

1. Bald Eagle
2. Northern Harrier
3. Black Vulture
4. Red-shouldered Hawk
5. Red-tailed Hawk

Falconiformes

1. Peregrine Falcon

Strigiformes

1. Great Horned Owl

Charadriiformes

1. American Woodcock

Piciformes

1. Pileated Woodpecker
2. Red-bellied Woodpecker
3. Downy Woodpecker

Anseriformes

1. Surf Scoter
2. White-winged Scoter
3. Common Goldeneye
4. Lesser Scaup
5. Greater Scaup
6. Mallard
7. Northern Pintail
8. American Black Duck
9. Northern Shoveler
10. Ring-necked Duck
11. Hooded Merganser
12. Wood Duck
13. Gadwall
14. Snow Goose

Passeriformes

1. Eastern Meadowlark
2. Red-winged Blackbird
3. Golden-crowned Kinglet
4. Brown Creeper
5. Horned Lark
6. Tree Swallow
7. Field Sparrow
8. Song Sparrow
9. Swamp Sparrow
10. Chipping Sparrow
11. Pine warbler
12. White-throated Sparrow
13. Common Redpoll

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, an

Your Week In Review

For the week of February 12th, through February 18th, this is your week in review.

This will be the second week in a row that I’m writing my week in review early. This time I’m skipping Friday and Saturday’s sightings because I’m driving to Michigan on Friday to visit my daughter for the weekend. And despite the fact that there’s not too many sightings being posted, they certainly quality birds for us. We’re getting some northern visitors in the form of Surf Scoter, White-winged Crossbill, Lesser Black-backed Gull, and Common Redpoll. This is exciting stuff. And to think I drove all the way to Toledo to locate the last two birds. Hopefully with these great birds in the tri-state this might motivate more birders to get out and bird.

Parks where area birders visited include Lake Isabella Park, Caesar Creek State Park, Hisey Park, Armleder Park, and the Oxbow. Neighborhoods reporting in include White Oak, Middletown, Maderia, and Campbell County KY.

Notable birds for the week include:

Accipitriformes

1. Northern Harrier
2. Red-shouldered Hawk
3. Black Vulture

Falconiformes

1. American Kestrel

Strigiformes

1. Great Horned Owl
2. Long-eared Owl

Charadriiformes

1. Lesser Black-backed Gull

Piciformes

1. Pileated Woodpecker

Anseriformes

1. Surf Scoter
2. Snow Goose
3. Canvasback

Passeriformes

1. White-winged Crossbill
2. Common Redpoll
3. Tree Sparrow
4. Fox 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.

Notes From The Field

Lake Isabella Park

A Great Horned Owl has taken over the nesting can at Lake Isabella, and today was the day that I’m going to get it’s picture. Lake Isabella is a Hamilton County Park situated along the Little Miami River. It’s a rather small park at only 77 acres, but it’s claim to fame is it’s 28 acre pay lake. I remember as a boy my brother and I drove out there from Pleasant Ridge and it was an all day adventure. Back then I-275 didn’t exist.

As I pulled up a noticed a women getting back into her car after checking out the Owl, and sure enough it was there.

As you can tell the only part we’re going to be allowed to view is it’s head.

After taking a few pictures I drove over to the lake to see if anything was swimming around. And lo and behold there was a small group of Hooded Mergansers. So for the next half and hour I took some pictures of the Mergansers till it got too dark.

Some of the girlfriends.

It’s small breaks like this after a day at work that pays off in the long run. Getting outdoors and breathing some fresh air and viewing the wilds things.

Notable birds for the day include:

1. Great Horned Owl
2. Pied-billed Grebe
3. Mallard
4. Hooded merganser
5. Belted Kingfisher
6. Canada Goose

Your Week In Review

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

As you all probably all know we started last weekend with another Ohio Valley ice storm which canceled what would have been a productive field trip to Grand Valley, and all along the Little Miami River Corridor. It also canceled my road trip to Killdeer Plains, (which I’m making up this Saturday) and also kept other birders indoors. And with that said you can tell it’s been a pretty light week with very few birders out and about. And with fewer birders reporting comes the inevitable fewer birds sighted. We did have a couple quality birds spotted, being some Tundra Swans, cackling Goose, and a unconfirmed Common Redpoll.

Area parks where birders visited include Armleder Park, Riverside Park, Miami Whitewater Forest, Spring Grove Cemetery, Fernald Preserve, Mitchell Memorial Forest, Lake Lorelei, and Lake Isabella. Neighborhoods reporting in include Campbell County Ky., Okeana, Neville, and Rising Sun, Indiana.

Notable birds include:

Accipitriformes

1. Red-shouldered Hawk
2. Sharp-shinned Hawk
3. Northern Harrier

Falconiformes

1. Merlin
2. American Kestrel

Strigiformes

1. Short-eared Owl

Charadriiformes

1. Herring Gull
2. Bonaparte’s Gull
3. American Woodcock

Anseriformes

1. Gadwall
2. Redhead
3. Hooded Merganser
4. Tundra Swan
5. American Black Duck
6. Northern Pintail
7. Ring-necked Duck
8. Lesser Scaup
9. Cackling Goose

Piciformes

1. Red-headed Woodpecker
2. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Passeriformes

1. Purple Finch
2. Swamp Sparrow
3. American Tree Sparrow
4. Song Sparrow
5. White-crowned Sparrow
6. Common Grackle
7. Eastern Bluebird
8. Common Redpoll
9. Eastern Meadowlark
10. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
11. Red-breasted Nuthatch