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 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 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.

Week In Review

For the week of March 11th, through March 17th, this is your week in review.

Well the calendar may say Winter, but the weather with all the severe thunderstorms and mild temperatures sure does indicate Spring to me. And what do we get when nicer weather comes for a visit? People go birding and they come away with some outstanding finds this week. Least Sandpiper, Virginia Rail, Marsh Wren, Eurasian Wigeon. How exciting is that? For bloggers like yours truly, this will be a busy Spring, which will keep me in more bird stuff to write about than normal.

So as I reviewed where birds visited this week you can start to see a steady increase in places where they went. Also birders are becoming more conscience to the birds in there own yards and neighborhoods. So here is a list of parks where birders visited: Cowan Lake S.P., Spring Grove Cemetery, Fernald Preserve, Spring Valley Wildlife Area, Armleder Park, The Oxbow, Shawnee Lookout Park, Miami Whitewater Forest, Crooked Run Nature Preserve, and Ellis Lake/West Chester Wetlands. Neighborhoods reporting in include: Milford, Clifton, Anderson Twp, East Gate, and  East Walnut Hills.

Notable birds for the week include:

Accipitriformes

1. Bald Eagle

Falconiformes

1. Merlin

Strigiformes

1. Barred Owl
2. Great Horned Owl
3. Long-eared Owl

Charadriiformes

1. Least Sandpiper
2. Wilson’s Snipe
3. American Woodcock

Podicipediformes

1. Horned Grebe

Piciformes

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

Anseriformes

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

Passeriformes

1. Fox Sparrow
2. Tree Swallow
3. Marsh Wren
4. Eastern Phoebe
5. Chipping Sparrow
6. Yellow-rumped Warbler
7. Vesper Sparrow
8. Swamp Sparrow
9. Field Sparrow
10. Rusty Black Bird
11. Golden-crowned Kinglet
12. Eastern Towhee
13. Song Sparrow
14. White-throated Sparrow
15. Red-breasted Nuthatch
16. Brown Thrasher

Gruiformes

1. Virginia Rail

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 4th, through March 10th, this is your week in review.

In a couple of hours Kathy and me are going to a matinee of West Side Story that’s showing in town. So I’m sitting in front of my computer writing up this story instead of out birding. Especially since we have 2 pretty good birds at Cowan Lake, which is in my neighborhood.

Anyway we had about your same normal activity, except we had some outstanding sightings. Namely the Northern Goshawk and the Eurasian Wigeon. Birders are getting out to a bunch of different locations, just not the species, except for the above mentioned. Another good sign that Spring is right around the corner is our first Pine Warbler sighting.

Area parks where our birders visited include East Fork S.P., Cowan Lake S.P., Whitacre Park, Fernald Preserve, The Oxbow, Winton Woods Park, Armleder Park, Daniel Drake Park, Spring Grove Cemetery, Miami Whitewater Forest, and California Woods. Neighborhoods reporting in include Liberty Township, Okeana, Price Hill, and Milford.

Notable birds for the week include:

Accipitriformes

1. Sharp-shinned Hawk
2. Red-shouldered Hawk
3. NORTHERN GOSHAWK
4. Red-tailed Hawk

Falconiformes

1. Merlin

Strigiformes

1. Barred Owl

Charadriiformes

1. Wilson’s Snipe
2. American Woodcock

Gaviiformes

1. Common Loon

Podicipediformes

1. Pied-bill Grebe
2. Horned Grebe

Piciformes

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

Anseriformes

1. Greater White-fronted Goose
2. Wood Duck
3. Green-winged Teal
4. EURASIAN WIGEON
5. Ross’s Goose
6. American Wigeon
7. Gadwall

Passeriformes

1. Tree Swallow
2. Golden-crowned Kinglet
3. Dark-eyed Junco
4. Eastern Towhee
5. Brown Creeper
6. Pine Warbler
7. Eastern Phoebe
8. 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.

Your Week In Review

For the week of February 19th, through February 25th, this is your week in review.

An explosion of some great bird activity has made this one of the busiest weeks we’ve had in a long time. It’s very much a domino effect when great birds start to show up, birders get out of the house to chase them. Such is the case as we look into this past week of tri-state birding. And as you’ll see waterfowl were the big winners, species wise this week.

State parks were the most visited parks this week as birders posted their sightings from Caesar Creek S.P., Paint Creek S.P., Cowan Lake S.P., Rocky Fork S.P., East Fork S.P., Whitewater S.P., Brookville Lake, Armleder Park, Indian Creek Wildlife Area, Hisey Park, Grant Lake Wildlife Area, Miami Whitewater Forest, Spring Grove Cemetery, and Muscatatuck N.W.R. Neighborhoods reporting in include Lake Lorelei, New Richmond, Anderson Twp, Aurora In., and Ewing Bottoms.

Notable birds for the week include:

Accipitriformes

1. Bald Eagle
2. Northern Harrier
3. Rough-legged Hawk
4. Red-shouldered Hawk
5. Red-tailed Hawk
6. Cooper’s Hawk
7. Sharp-shinned Hawk
8. Turkey Vulture
9. Black Vulture

Falconiformes

1. American Kestrel

Strigiformes

1. Barred Owl
2. Long-eared Owl

Charadriiformes

1. Franklin’s Gull
2. Wilson’s Snipe
3. American Woodcock

Piciformes

1. Downy Woodpecker
2. Northern Flicker

Anseriformes

1. Tundra Swan
2. Surf Scoter
3. White-winged Scoter
4. Common Goldeneye
5. American Wigeon
6. Northern Pintail
7. Mallard
8. Canvasback
9. Lesser Scaup
10. Greater Scaup
11. Bufflehead
12. Hooded Merganser
13. Common Merganser
14. Ruddy Duck
15. American Black Duck
16. Gadwall
17. Ring-necked Duck
18. Green-winged Teal
19. Redhead
20. Wood Duck
21. Northern Shoveler
22. Blue-winged Teal

Gaviiformes

1. Common Loon

Gruiformes

1. Sandhill Crane
2. Whooping Crane

Passeriformes

1. Northern Shrike
2. Horned Lark
3. Fox Sparrow
4. Swamp Sparrow
5. Yellow-rumped Warbler
6. Common Grackle
7. Eastern Towhee
8. Song Sparrow
9. Field Sparrow
10. White-throated Sparrow
11. White-crowned Sparrow
12. American tree Sparrow
13. Pine Siskin

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.