Winter 2016-17 Vol. 13, No. 4 The

Quarterly Newsletter of the Ohio Ornithological Society

From the Editor...... 2 Starting a Bluebird Trail...... 4 Upcoming OOS events...... 2 Lost Among the Birds...... 5 OOS Conservation...... 3 Columbus Metro Parks...... 6

Clear Creek | John Watts From the Editor

Enjoying birds and safeguard- ing their habitat is inseparable. The prospects for environ- Save the Date mental protection and species and check ohiobirds.org for updates and online registration conservation seem rather bleak from what we are hearing from the new federal administration. WARBLERS & WILD- How can Ohio birders do their FLOWERS – April 28-30 part to contribute to the future viability of our bird populations? The Ohio Ornithological Society I think there are many things we invites you to a spectacular can do. And if everyone steps up weekend of fun, fellowship, their efforts just a little bit, it will and birding at Shawnee add up. For instance, practice some lifestyle changes – spend State Park near Portsmouth more time outdoors and take in southern Ohio. Witness a r ula | Br uce M ille your children, family, and friends the first big wave of spring with you. Have you been to all

t h e rn P migration and enjoy the Metro Parks or State Parks in your

No r charm of Shawnee State area? Drink shade-grown coffee Park Lodge. Saturday night and recycle more. Be an advocate for a healthy environment in your keynote speakers will be Laura Keene and Christian Hagen- community and engage in an locher, who spent 2016 in a Big Year of the American Birding environmental non-profit. Many Association area, breaking Neil Hayward’s 2013 record of organizations in Ohio, including 749 species. To warm up to their report, we will have a show- OOS, are active in habitat con- ing of ‘The Big Year’ movie on Friday night. servation, research and education (see Cheryl Harner’s report on page 3). MARSH MADNESS – The American Bird Conservancy May 13 and 14 started the #TogetherForBirds petition to urge legislators in May has so many birding Washington not to dismantle the adventures to explore, but Endangered Species Act, a cor- The Biggest Week in Ameri- nerstone environmental law that can Birding is an exceptional has prevented the disappearance of Bald Eagle, Whooping Crane t | Br uce M ille r event from May 5-14 in and the California Condor. This northwest Ohio. During this petition can be signed until Earth Black Swamp Bird Observatory Day (April 22). Both Audubon event, OOS, in cooperation and the Sierra Club run petitions with the Ohio Department of r ame r ica n Redsta to safeguard the Environmental Natural Resources, is con- Protection Agency in its role to protect clean water, clean air, and ducting beginner bird walks a serious approach to climate on Saturday May 13, and Sunday May 14. Groups will be led change. by experienced birders at the Magee Marsh boardwalk area to help identify the warblers and other songbirds that are Please send your comments to seen migrating through the area. [email protected].

2 • THE CERULEAN From the OOS Conservation Committee

By Cheryl Harner OOS Conservation Chair

What does a Wood Duck box, the Sunshine Corridor, Lake Erie wetlands and King Rails have Downy young peregrine “Phelps” ... into the . in common? They all received falling out of the nest box ... funding from the Ohio Ornitho- logical Society’s 2016 conserva- tion budget. Our broad reach across the state has supported The Nature Conservancy’s Morgan Swamp in north-east Ohio. We also pro- vided $3,000.00 matching funds support for the Gaffin Tract within the Sunshine Corridor in southern-most Adams County.

Habitat restoration and a ame r ica n Kest el | ma le e de la c u z-G z m án commitment to research con- tinue to be a mainstay of our rural highways in Crawford Educational funding included efforts. Two successful sympo- County, and a Wood Duck box sponsorship of the Ohio Young siums were held with a specific for Green Lawn Cemetery in Co- Birders Conference and award- conservation focus: Grassland lumbus. Providing better access ing funds to young birders Matt Birds and Rally for Rails. Grass- for birders was accomplished Kepler and Liz Rising. Rural land Birds was held at The Wilds by funding efforts to repair and Action’s Environmental Educa- in south eastern Ohio. The Cin- replace boardwalks at Magee tion program received funding cinnati Nature Center’s Grass- Marsh (Ottawa County) and Ce- support for their first-ever Birds land Restoration project was the dar Bog (Champaign County). in the Hills Festival in southeast recipient of $900.00 generated We know our membership is Ohio. at this educational forum. The quite fond of birds and wants Your Ohio Ornithological Rally for Rails at Lakeside on access to see them! Society membership is provid- Lake Erie supported wetlands OOS has written numerous ing both funding and volunteer and rail research to the tune of letters and provided support time for worthy conservation $2,000.00. Winous Point Con- for other agencies’ bird con- efforts in north, south, east and servation, Black Swamp Bird servation efforts; for instance western Ohio. If you care about Observatory and Ottawa Na- the ‘cats indoors’ campaign birds and want to empower the tional Wildlife Refuge were all and initiatives for the proper efforts to protect, preserve and beneficiaries. placement of wind turbines. conserve habitats for their ben- Conservation can also be Additionally, we aided National efit – you can feel good about tangible “wood and nails” proj- Audubon’s efforts in lobbying the work OOS is accomplishing ects. OOS provided funding for for clean and green energy in throughout the Buckeye State. American Kestrel boxes along the State of Ohio.

Ohio’s Birding Network • 3 Instilling passion for conservation in youth: Starting a Bluebird Trail

Ryan Jenkins (on the right) with his brother Joey

By Darlene Sillick “My Eagle Scout Project was to help support the expansion of the bluebird species at Ohio Setting up a trail of bluebird State University’s (OSU) Chadwick Arboretum, boxes requires finding funding located on 1,600 acres on the main campus. The and recruiting youth to put up location of my bluebird project was at Chadwick nestboxes for our cavity nest- Lake North, which has approximately 19 acres. ing birds. This past spring I was The location provides ideal open habitat with enjoying a wonderful migration scattered trees and a small lake. My project day at Magee Marsh when I ran involved taking down 14 old bluebird boxes and into an old friend who told me to replace them with 20 new bluebird boxes. about his worldly birding trav- The population of bluebirds depends in part els sitting in first class flights. on us humans to provide nesting sites. A blue- My wheels started turning as I bird trail is a series of bluebird boxes along a listened to him and I could not designated route, which is what I did in my proj- help to think about a conserva- ect at Chadwick. tion project that I was planning: When taking down the old, poorly made blue- redoing a trail of falling-down bird boxes, I encountered nesting mice in some baffle-less nest boxes at Ohio of them. Also, their locations were not condu- State University’s Chadwick cive to bluebird nesting. The new sites were Arboretum. The world traveler marked with flags and I bought and prepared was a graduate of The Ohio the material to make the new bluebird boxes. State University and he was a We were then installing the boxes on electric birder, so I pitched my idea to metallic tube (EMT) poles and used poly-vinyl him. A few days later I received chloride (PVC) baffles to keep out predators. I a $200 gift card for materials determined the new box locations using Global in the mail. A few months later, Positioning System (GPS) and presented my on Saturday, October 15, about project to the OSU Ornithology Club. Data will two dozen people came to- be collected by OSU students and submitted on gether to help a Boy Scout from NestWatch at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Dublin, Ryan Jenkins, to fledge Relocating the boxes to better sites will hope- his Eagle Scout project. Here is fully increase the number of bluebirds that can the story in Ryan’s words. nest at Chadwick.” 4 • THE CERULEAN Book REVIEW: Lost Among the Birds Neil Hayward Bloomsbury, 2016 The early work crew of scouts, OSU 416 pages students, family and friends Hardback, $28.00

‘Bluebirds’ – continued I have combined my passion Lost Among the for bluebirds and other cavity Birds by Neil Hayward nesters with the engagement chronicles in poignant of youth in conservaton activi- detail the author’s ties. My goal is to teach young record-setting “Ac- people compassion for the natu- cidental Big Year” in ral world, to get them outside, 2013. By finding 749 and to encourage them to be species in North Amer- inquisitive and care about our ica in one year, Neal environment. What may start Hayward successfully as a nest box in one’s back- eclipsed the standing yard, can grown into something record of 748 species rather contagious. set in 1998. However, unlike most of his pre- decessors in this near- Darlene Sillick is the Ohio Olympic birding en- Bluebird Society area contact deavor, Hayward didn’t for Franklin County. She is also initially plan to do a a member of OOS’ conserva- Big Year until well into tion committee, and is a leader 2013! As the book’s exciting bird species on the in the Ohio Young Birders subtitle suggests, the author continent. His descriptions of Club. This was the 28th Eagle recounts “Accidentally Finding exotic and often remote regions Scout project that she has Myself in One Very Big Year.” (many no doubt familiar to some mentored. Unlike similar Big Year-type readers) and the spectacular accounts, this beautifully and birds that inhabit them are sensitively written volume is not worthy in their own right, but just about chasing birds - rather when Hayward’s personal story it’s an autobiographical journey is intimately bound with these describing self-discovery, per- avian pursuits, the end result is a sonal love, and a passion for thoroughly enjoyable read. birds seldom folded into one story. Readers get to know and feel both the pathos of Hay- From: The Birding Community ward’s inner journey, as well as Ryan and Joey put up the first nest E-Bulletin the enjoyment of finding and Paul J. Baicich and Wayne R. box. Joey has set up Purple Martin pursuing some of the most rigs in his own project. Petersen Ohio’s Birding Network • 5 Local Birding Series Columbus Metro Parks A long history of Bird Conservation By John Watts

kuhlwein Road wetland at Darby | John watts When the Columbus and to focus on protecting open green Darby Creeks at Battelle Darby Franklin County Metro Parks space that contained smaller Creek and Prairie Oaks Metro were created in 1945, Walter natural areas but also possessed Parks, now totaling over 9,200 Tucker, the first Director, re- high potential for habitat restora- acres and 20 miles along these ceived criticism for “going way tion. Many of these areas were Federal and State Scenic Rivers. out in the country and buying a in row crop agriculture at the All of these areas serve as not swamp that people wouldn’t vis- time of acquisition, so soils and only important natural areas for it”. That first park was Blacklick topography could be evaluated for protection, conservation, educa- Woods, which today has 825,000 conversion into wetlands, prairies tion and passive recreation but visitors annually. From those and grassland, and forests. These important migratory corridors humble beginnings Metro Parks 1990s acquisitions are already for a variety of wildlife, including has grown to 20 park areas, being used by a variety of wild- birds. nearly 27,500 acres, and reached life and can be visited at Battelle While nearly 2,400 species of 10 million visitors in 2016. Darby Creek, Glacier Ridge, plants and animals have been From its early days, a key focus Prairie Oaks, and Pickerington documented for the Metro Parks, of the Metro Parks has been Ponds. no group of species may draw to protect high quality natural Beginning around 2000, Metro broader attention from visitors areas in central Ohio. This is Park’s expansion led to the than birds. The Metro Park’s evident in the older parks such as acquisition of over 60 miles of bird list currently stands at 297 Blendon Woods, Sharon Woods, greenway corridors along streams species that includes seven cen- Highbanks, and Battelle Darby such as Big Walnut Creek, Alum tral Ohio counties. Some of the Creek where visitors hike the Creek, Blacklick Creek, the Metro Park records are of birds trails through a variety of mature , and more re- that actually occurred prior to woodlands. As high quality natural cently the Scioto River. Separate the areas becoming Metro Parks. areas were protected, park ex- from these areas was the continued Bewick’s Wren and Bachman’s pansion during the 1990s began expansion along Big and Little Sparrow were breeding in the

6 • THE CERULEAN 1930s at Clear Creek, and a and oak savannas. All of these observe Nelson’s Sparrow and Snowy Owl was observed at components continue through LeConte’s Sparrow in the fall Highbanks in the early 1950s. succession as the area completes as well as Short-eared Owl and It is likely that Ohio’s first Red- its fifth full growing season. Dur- Northern Harrier during the cockaded Woodpecker record, a ing that first year, 35 new species winter. bird collected in 1872 “between of birds were added to the park Wetland restoration areas at the canal and the Scioto River”, bird list. As the habitat matures, Pickerington Ponds, Walnut was near or at the present-day some of these species may not be Woods and Glacier Ridge have location of Scioto Audubon observed in the future; however, supported notable breeding Metro Park. Here, other rarities breeding species are becoming species such as Osprey, Sand- were recorded from the mid to established that include: Ameri- hill Crane, King Rail, and Least late 1800s, including Hudsonian can Bittern, Least Bittern, Sora, Bittern. Spring and fall migration and Marbled Godwits, Northern Virginia Rail, Northern Shoveler, have produced Little Blue Heron, Shrike, Red Knot, and Golden Blue-winged Teal, Dickcissel, Glossy Ibis, and American White Eagle (pers. comm. W. Whan). Henslow’s Sparrow, Sedge Wren Pelican. Shorebird migration, Of all the Metro Parks, Picker- and Marsh Wren. This area especially during the fall, can be ington Ponds boasts the highest has also become a good area to very productive. Metro Parks has number of total species at 263. Clear Creek supports more than 100 breeding birds, including 20 species of wood warblers. kuhlwein Road wetland at Darby | John watts Beginning in the late 1990s, Metro Parks began a very active restoration program and to date has restored or initiated resto- ration of nearly 8,000 acres of grassland, native prairies, wet- lands, and forests. Grasslands at Glacier Ridge, Slate Run and Prairie Oaks support Bobolinks, Henslow’s Sparrows, Grasshop- per Sparrows, Eastern Meadow- larks, and an occasional Savan- nah Sparrow. To date, Metro Parks has re- stored approximately 1,600 acres of native Darby Plains Prairies at Battelle Darby Creek and Prairie Oaks. In 2010, Metro Parks be- gan restoration of a 650-acre area at Battelle Darby Creek referred to as the “Kuhlwein Wetland.” This area was designed to rep- resent what the original Darby Plains prairies may have been; a combination of native grass- lands, wet prairies, open water prairie potholes, cattail marshes Prairie Restoration at Darby | John watts Ohio’s Birding Network • 7 LOUISIANA WATERTRHUSH | John watts made efforts to provide mudflats initiated studies in Neotoma have returned to the valley to be- for fall shorebird migration with Valley. From 1971-1997, Tom gin breeding. Clear Creek Metro wetland design and water level Thomson surveyed the valley an- Park is a very reliable nesting management; however, seasonal nually during June, documenting ground for Cerulean Warblers, drying patterns generally pro- breeding species he encountered. a species that has declined dra- duce more productive feeding During the most recent Breed- matically across much of its Ohio flats. Pickerington Ponds typi- ing Bird Atlas surveys, over 100 range. Ceruleans seem to continue cally attracts numerous sandpip- species of birds were recorded to be found in good numbers ers including Pectoral, Least, for the Clear Creek Valley. The throughout the park, with 10-15 Semipalmated, and Baird’s, all Hemlock forest harbors specialty singing males annually along being observed annually. Hudso- species such as Black-throated Clear Creek Road. nian Godwit, American Avocet, Green Warbler, Magnolia War- Beginning in 2012, Metro Black-bellied Plover and Ameri- bler, Hermit Thrush, Blue- Parks initiated efforts to re- can Golden Plover have also been headed Vireo, Canada Warbler, establish Northern Bobwhite at observed. and an occasional Winter Wren. Slate Run Metro Park. Using an Clear Creek Metro Park is cer- Along Clear Creek Road west of outdoor incubator cage known as tainly one of Ohio’s finest natural Camp Wyandot, one may annu- a Surrogator, the day-old chicks areas and represents Ohio’s larg- ally find 4-5 pairs of Veeries that are raised outdoors in the secu- est dedicated State Nature Pre- often forage on the road. Each rity of the cage with heat, food, serve. The Clear Creek Valley has year beginning in late March, water, and away from people. long been known as significant the arrival of breeding warblers This allows them to imprint for breeding birds. Breeding bird begins with the return of Pine themselves on the natural habitat, surveys began in the Clear Creek Warbler and Louisiana Water- which increases survival. After Valley in 1923 when Ed Thomas thrush. By mid-May, 20 species about five weeks, the Surrogator 8 • THE CERULEAN is opened and they are released. The door is left open as the young chicks may come and go for a few days before heading out into the park. In 2014, the first group of birds successfully bred on their own. Surrogation efforts continue with the idea of building the pop- ulation as high as possible before considering moving to another park. It requires about 2 years of management to prepare the area for a release program of this type. Annual habitat manipulation, including mowing and discing, ensures the habitat is there to support Bobwhite coveys. All Metro Parks have their brown thrasher | John watts own bird specialties. Highbanks widely observed Bachman’s Spar- Roost Lake at Slate Run was is known for its annual Summer row in Ohio. Ohio’s only 3rd confirmed record Tanagers, Walnut Woods for Osprey: In 2005, the first pair of this now regular visitor. nesting Blue Grosbeak, Clear of Osprey recorded breeding in Red Phalarope: A spring breed- Creek for summer warblers and Franklin County began nesting at ing-plumage female found by Jeff LOUISIANA WATERTRHUSH | John watts Pickerington Ponds for water- Pickerington Ponds. Two addi- Pontius in 2013 at the Battelle fowl and shorebirds. With some tional pairs now breed at Scioto Darby Creek Wetland was Ohio’s effort it is possible to see over Audubon and Walnut Woods fifth spring record of this spec- 200 species in a single year in the Metro Parks. tacularly plumaged bird. Metro Parks. Bald Eagles: In 2011, Bald Ea- Clay-colored Sparrow: The first gles began nesting at Highbanks Ohio nesting attempt was con- A few notable bird records: and Walnut Woods. firmed in 1996 at Battelle Darby Rufous Hummingbird: Ohio’s Sandhill Crane: A pair began Creek Metro Park. A second pair first Rufous Hummingbird in breeding at the Slate Run Wet- possibly bred at Prairie Oaks in 1985 was found visiting a feeder land in 2009 constituting Ohio’s 2013. adjacent to Sharon Woods. Since most southern breeding pair at then this species has been ob- that time. Two pairs also breed served at Blendon Woods. annually at Pickerington Ponds. Mississippi Kite: A 1987 bird Bells’ Vireo: A pair of Bell’s discovered by Bob Conlon spent Vireos has regularly nested along 2-3 days in the Big Meadows the Heritage Bike Trail in Hill- Picnic Area chasing and eating iard since the early to mid 2000s. 17-year cicadas and accounted Pairs have also bred at Walnut John Watts is the Resource for Ohio’s 3rd confirmed record Woods in recent years and dur- Manager for the Columbus and of this species. ing 1986 a male summered at Franklin County Metro Parks. Bachman’s Sparrow: A bird that Blendon Woods. He has recently co-authored summered along the entrance Ross’ Goose: A 1997 bird in the ‘The Birds of Hocking County, road to Highbanks Metro Park company of several “blue phase” Ohio’ with Paul Knoop Jr. and during the summer of 1974 is snow geese on the Buzzard’s generally accepted as the last Gary Coovert.

Ohio’s Birding Network • 9 Sunday, 19 February Ohio Birding Birding Calendar Great Backyard Bird Count The Ridges, Athens Resources around Ohio SE Ohio Young Naturalist Club Please confirm event details and ruralaction.org Check out these organizations for registration needs using the links up-to-date field trip and event provided. Monday, 20 February info! If you want your local bird ‘Birding in the Pits’ with Jay club listed here, contact Saturday, 28 January Stenger [email protected] Bird Walk at Byers Woods Audubon, Cincinnati Chapter Greater Mohican Audubon cincinnatiaudubon.org American Avian Conservation and gmasohio.org Research Institute Thursday, 23 February tuckercasey.wixsite.com/aacri-birds Saturday, 28 January Sunday Creek Owl Prowl Gulls at Edgewater Park Burr Oak Lodge, Glouster Athens Area Birders Rural Action groups.io/g/athensbirders Kirtland Bird Club kirtlandbirdclub.org ruralaction.org Audubon Ohio, Cincinnati Chapter cincinnatiaudubon.org Wednesday, 1 February Saturday, 25 February ‘40 years of Bird Research in Cen- Spring Waterfowl Migration Blackbrook Audubon Oxbow, Inc. blackbrookaudubon.org tral Siberia’ with Anna Kozlenko Kirtland Bird Club Audubon, Cincinnati Chapter Black River Audubon kirtlandbirdclub.org cincinnatiaudubon.org blackriveraudubon.org 1-3 February Saturday, 25 February Black Swamp Bird Observatory Field Trip to Killdeer Plains Lake Erie Shoreline bsbo.org Brooks Bird Club Blackbrook Audubon Canton Audubon brooksbirdclub.org blackbrookaudubon.org cantonaudubon.org Tuesday, 7 February Sunday, 26 February Columbus Audubon ‘Bird Listening’ with Kyle Carlson Great Miami Waterfowl columbusaudubon.org Athens Area Birders Audubon, Cincinnati Chapter Greater Cleveland Audubon groups.io/g/athensbirders cincinnatiaudubon.org clevelandaudubon.org Tuesday, 7 February Monday, 27 February Greater Mohican Audubon ‘Peregrines in Cleveland’ with ‘Alexander Wilson’ with Bryan Sharp gmasohio.org Chris and Chad Saladin Delaware County Bird Club Kirtland Bird Club Black River Audubon columbusaudubon.org kirtlandbirdclub.org blackriveraudubon.org Monday, 27 February Mountwood Bird Club 11-12 February ‘Home on the range with Prarie- brooksbirdclub.org Birds of Prey Weekend Chickens’ with Jackie Augustine Rock River Nature Center Delaware County Bird Club Ohio Bird Conservation Initiative columbusaudubon.org obcinet.org clevelandmetroparks.com Ohio Bluebird Society Sunday, 12 February Tuesday, 28 February ohiobluebirdsociety.org Feeding Winter Birds ‘Teeth, jaws and claws: Why are North Chagrin Reservation birds really carnivorous dino- Ohio Young Birders Club saurs?’ with Dale Gnidovec ohioyoungbirders.org Kirtland Bird Club kirtlandbirdclub.org Columbus Audubon Tri-Moraine Audubon columbusaudubon.org tri-moraineaudubon.org 17-20 February Great Backyard Bird Count Western Cuyahoga Audubon gbbc.birdcount.org WCAudubon.org

10 • THE CERULEAN 3-5 March Early Spring Meeting Thursday, 30 March North Bend State Park Lodge, WV Ohio River Island NWR Brooks Bird Club Brooks Bird Club brooksbirdclub.org brooksbirdclub.org Saturday, 4 March Thursday, 6 April Amish Birding Symposium McDonough Wildlife Refuge Adams County Parkersburg, WV adamscountytravel.org Brooks Bird Club brooksbirdclub.org Saturday, 4 March Ohio Bluebird Society Conference Saturday, 22 April Ashland University Earth Day Bird Walk ohiobluebirdsociety.org The Ridges, Athens Athens Area Birders Tuesday, 7 March groups.io/g/athensbirders Ohio Wildlife Diversity Conference ‘From Dusk to Dawn - Nocturnal Monday, 24 April Revelations’ ‘Birds of the ’ with Ohio Union, Columbus John Watts apps.ohiodnr.gov Delaware County Bird Club columbusaudubon.org Tuesday, 7 March ‘Birds of Jamaica’ with Stefan Tuesday, 25 April Gleissberg ‘The Birding Project: An epic Big Athens Area Birders Year’ with Christian Hagenlocher groups.io/g/athensbirders Columbus Audubon columbusaudubon.org 9-10 March Funk/Killbuck Field Trip 28-30 April Brooks Bird Club Warblers & Wildflowers brooksbirdclub.org Shawnee State Park Lodge Ohio Ornithological Society Wednesday, 15 March ohiobirds.org ‘Birding Hotspots’ with Kent Miller Canton Audubon Saturday, 29 April cantonaudubon.org Songbird Migration Banding Black Swamp Bird Observatory Saturday, 18 March bsbo.org Nightfall on the Ridges Athens Area Birders 5-14 May groups.io/g/athensbirders Biggest Week in American Bird- ing Saturday, 18 March Maumee Bay Lodge Shreve Migration Sensation bwiab.com happypages.com/migration 13-14 May Marsh Madness Tuesday, 28 March Ohio Ornithological Society ‘The Second Atlas of Breeding ohiobirds.org Birds in Ohio’ with Matt Shumar Columbus Audubon columbusaudubon.org n G leissbe r g A me r ica n Robi | S tefa

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