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CINCINNATI BIRD CLUB THE PASSENGER PIGEON VOLUME 51, ISSUE 5 MAY 2015 May Program: Birds of Peru SPECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST Friday, May 15, 2015 7:00 sionate conservationist. For more information on pm at Sharon Woods Visi- Although Richard lives in Richard and his interests, May Meeting tor Center Peru – where he is from - click here. Speaker: Richard Amable for part of the year, we are May Field Trips Topic: Birds of Peru fortunate that he lives in East Fork Birding Festival southwest Ohio for the During spring migration it other part, where he serves Falcon Cam seems like the tropics come on the board of the Audu- Field Trip Notes to you. We are doubling bon Society of Ohio. Join down on that sentiment us at 7:00 p.m. to hear Kayak Birding and bringing the tropics Richard share his first-hand even closer. May’s speaker, knowledge and passion and INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Richard Amable, is the for the natural history of founder and director of Peru. Field Trip Notes 2 Jacamar Club Peru , which offers bird and natural his- ~Jack Stenger May Quiz Bird 2 tory tours throughout Program Chair Photo from http:// Peru. Richard is an expert East Fork Birding Festi- 3 www.jacamargroup.com/#! birder, bird guide, and pas- background/c18h9 Golden Startling 4 Peregrine Falcon Cam 4 May Field trip: Long Branch Farm April Quiz Answer 5 Date: Saturday, May 16 booth. Pass the booth/ access to Long Branch for Time: 8:00am Until Noon entryway and bear right to Cincinnati Bird Club mem- Oxbow Birdathon 6 Where: Long Branch Farm cross a creek, then bear left bers. The trails at Long (Cincinnati Nature Center) at the fork until you reach Branch Farm wind through Calendar 7 Leader: Mike Kravitz the parking lot. We will deciduous forest, fields, meet at the Creekside Barn streams and ponds. The great Birding Local Water- 8 The Long Branch Farm walk which is across from the variety of habitat and the begins at 8 AM and ends parking lot (there are rest numbers of migratory birds Kayak Birding May 9 9 at Noon. The address is 6926 rooms there). passing through on this peak Gaynor Rd, Goshen, OH Since 2002, Mike has volun- migration date should bring a Kayak Birding May 22 10 45122 and can be found on teered at the Cincinnati Na- good assortment of bird spe- Google Maps here. Long ture Center (CNC) as a bird cies. Kayak Birding May 23 11 Branch If you're coming guide on many of their "2nd If you have any questions from OH-28 East, turn left and 4th Saturday of the contact Mike at: Kayak Birding May 24 12 onto Gaynor Rd and go month" bird walks. Nor- [email protected] about 1.6 miles, turn left mally accessible only to CNC (513)265-4160 Kayak Birding May 25 13 into a small entry area with a members, Mike has obtained PAGE 2 THE PASSENGER PIGEON May Quiz Bird Rules: Anybody is welcome and the state list for Ohio, Indiana, or all are encouraged to participate. Kentucky is fair game. Whoever However, only paying members has the highest number of correct (it’s only $12 per year) are eligible answers by the end of the Bird for prizes and unadulterated brag- Club season (May) “wins.” Any ging rights. To participate send public discussion of quiz birds will your answers to me result in a trap door opening up ([email protected]) by May beneath the violator. 25. Prize: To be determined. All responses must be the official Answers: I will post the answer common English names used by with a brief analysis in the next the American Ornithologists’ Un- Bird Club newsletter. This will ion check-list (Link). This means include a list of all those who they must be correctly spelled, guessed correctly. Don’t worry, capitalized, and hyphenated or else wrong guesses will not be pub- they are counted as wrong. Mind lished, so fire away: it’s better to your plovers and quails. Also in- get a CBC quiz wrong than to have clude any comments you have never participated. I think Alexan- about the quiz bird, such as how der Wilson said that. you arrived at your ID, or how ~Jack Stenger you felt about the picture. Venting is welcome. Any bird that is on April Field Trip Notes On Saturday, April 18, 22 other birds. of raptors including American locations. people met Brian Wulker at Kestrel, Red-tailed Hawk, After making our way Thanks to Brian for leading a Spring Grove Cemetery for Red-shoulded Hawk and through Spring Grove Ceme- great trip on a beautiful day. the Cincinnati Bird Club Broad-winged Hawk. One of tery, we went to Burnet walk. It was a warm, sunny the non-bird highlights at Ebird list for the trip can be Woods. Burnet Woods had day and a great day to be out Burnet Woods was the Laza- an interesting mix of birds found here: birding with friends. At rus Lizards that were on the including a Blue-winged War- Spring Grove we found Yel- rock walls. They were very bler, Yellow-rumped War- Spring Grove low-bellied Sapsucker, Pine fast and challenging to see. bler, Northern Parula and a Burnet Woods Siskin, Northern Parula, Pine very cooperative Black- I'd say that the bird of the day Warbler, Yellow-throated throated Green Warbler. was Blue-grey Gnatcatcher, Warbler, and Yellow-rumped We also found a good variety with many being seen at both Warbler as well as a variety of Black-throated Green Warbler Photo by Jeff Bilsky See page 4 for more photos from the field trip. VOLUME 51, ISSUE 5 PAGE 3 2015 East Fork State Park Birding Festival May 2-3rd Did you know there are at least two active Bald Eagle nests in Clermont Co. this spring? Information on where to see Bald Eagles locally Live Raptors on Display Bird Walks throughout the day, including a nocturnal hike for owls/woodcocks Birding by Kayak/Canoe (vessel provided) Talks on Bird Identification, Photography, Conservation, etc. Activities for Young Birders and Children of all ages, & more! All activities will be centered at the south public swimming beach in Bantam, OH. For directions or more information, contact: Donald Morse Jr. “Donald the Birder” at [email protected] or see the park website for contacts/directions: http://parks.ohiodnr.gov/eastfork Organizations that will make this all possible include: The Cincinnati Bird Club, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Donald the Birder’s Blog, and PAGE 4 THE PASSENGER PIGEON More photos from the Burnet Woods field trip Blue-winged Warbler European Wall Lizard (Lazarus Lizard) Photo by Jeff Bilsky Photo by Brian Wulker It's time for the Golden Startling to move on. It should be noted that the Oxbow Bir- and Paul Wharton. team and give the "Beasts of Birdin" a dathon has been dominated by a continu- run for their money. So get your team That Starling is gathering dust and I ing team that has held the coveted together and get those "Beasts of Birdin" know of two teams who are out to take it "Golden Starling" award for the majority flapping scared. away. My team "Invasive Species" con- of the last 28 years. This team is the sisting of Jeff Bilsby, Bill Stanley and Birdathon details can be found on page 6. "Beasts of Birdin" made up of Jack James Wheat and Brian Wulker’s team. Stenger and Joe Bens. This team was I'm sure that there are other Cincinnati formally known as the "Fire and Brim- Bird Club members who could create a stone Birders" that included Jay Stenger Cincinnati Peregrine Falcon Cam Goes Live! from the convenience of The Cincinnati Peregrine your own home! Falcon Cam is now live! As of April 2, four eggs Check it out on the home have been laid with the page of RAPTOR Inc. at hatching expected to be www.raptorinc.org. The around the end of April or downtown Cincinnati nest the beginning of May. Then box is located on the north comes the excitement of side of the 4th and Vine watching the chicks grow Building (formerly PNC). and develop, eating food You can see this nest box brought into the nest box from the observation deck and eventually fledge. Tune Photo From the Raptor Inc Facebook Page of the Carew Tower with in and watch the action! binoculars. With the web- cam, you can observe all of Cindy Alverson the daily activities of an RAPTOR Inc. active Peregrine Falcon nest VOLUME 51, ISSUE 5 PAGE 5 APRIL BIRD QUIZ ANSWER April Quiz Bird. Photo series by Rob Tunison Although this is called a bird quiz, most divers and since only the tip of this birds tail behind and disappearing completely. of the pictures so far have been of build- tail can be seen it must indeed be on its Kathi Hutton and Bill Stanley were this ings and bushes. I’ve added to this diver- way to the depths. However, dabbling month’s correct respondents. Northern sity by including a picture of water. I ducks can rarely dive below the surface was originally planning on doing a war- of the water. But this is never an elegant Pintail was the only other species receiv- bler for the April quiz, but when Rob affair. “Diving” dabblers look like a kid ing guesses. This picture of a Long- Tunison showed me the following pic- trying to touch the bottom of the pool tailed Duck was photographed by Rob tures, I had no choice.