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Quarterly Newsletter of the Ohio Ornithological Society from The 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 R invites you to a spectacular can do. And if everyone steps up ILLE weekend of fun, fellowship, their efforts just a little bit, it will M UCE and birding at Shawnee add up. For instance, practice some lifestyle changes – spend | BR State Park near Portsmouth ULA more time outdoors and take R in southern Ohio. Witness A your children, family, and friends the first big wave of spring RN P E with you. Have you been to all H T migration and enjoy the Metro Parks or State Parks in your R NO 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 R adventures to explore, but Endangered Species Act, a cor- ILLE M The Biggest Week in Ameri- nerstone environmental law that UCE can Birding is an exceptional has prevented the disappearance | BR T event from May 5-14 in of Bald Eagle, Whooping Crane R and the California Condor. This northwest Ohio. During this petition can be signed until Earth Redsta Black Swamp Bird Observatory N Day (April 22). Both Audubon ICA event, OOS, in cooperation R and the Sierra Club run petitions with the Ohio Department of AME 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 Cuyahoga River. in common? They all received falling out of the nest box ... funding from the Ohio Ornitho- ÁN M logical Society’s 2016 conserva- Z U tion budget. Z-G U R C Our broad reach across the LA state has supported The Nature DE E Conservancy’s Morgan Swamp N LE in north-east Ohio. We also pro- R MA vided $3,000.00 matching funds | EL support for the Gaffin Tract R KEST within the Sunshine Corridor in N ICA southern-most Adams County. R Habitat restoration and a AME 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.
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