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A swallow-tailed kite in Ohio!

   I have written once in the past about utilizing Cornell Lab's eBird services, in particular the email alerts. I wrote after finding out about an active osprey nest only about 15 miles from my house, but once again, the email alerts have helped me make another exciting find, this time...
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Fall migration is beginning

   I have written many times about fall birdwatching (here, here and here are a few examples). If you ask nearly any bird watcher when the best time of year to go birding is, they will probably all tell you the same thing: spring. But I would argue that fall is actually the best time to...
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A green heron, and a rare bird

   I was in Pike County, Ohio, today, birding the area and was lucky enough to see both a green heron (my first green heron in a little over a year), and a rare bird. But in order to find out what the rare bird was, you will have to keep on reading. I began birding around 3:00 pm...
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Search for black-crowned night-herons results in a lifer

   Tonight in my search for the black-crowned night-herons that were reported at a nearby lake, I did not find the herons, but I did add a new bird to my life list- the chimney swift! That takes my life list tally up to 129. For those of you who don't know, chimney swifts are much like...
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Black-Crowned Night-Herons

   I have subscribed to eBird needs alerts for over two years now, and they have been extremely helpful. Not only did they lead me to an nesting osprey pair not 30 minutes from my home, but now it will lead me on an adeventure to a nearby lake in search of black-crowned night-herons. And...
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Website infiltrated by bots

   Birds of Ohio had become the latest victim of web bot spamming. Web bots are most simply put machines created to surf the internet and post many comments on websites full of nonsense. Basically, they are machines used to cause others alot of otherwise unecessary work. The eagle cam...
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Tree swallow findings

   I was cleaning out one of my tree swallow boxes a few weeks ago shortly after the little swallows fledged, and found at the bottom an unhatched egg. Deciding to further my knowledge of the bird world even more, I carefully removed the egg to take some careful measurements. These will...
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A wildlife-rich trip to Tennessee!

   I just returned two days ago from nearly a week in the Cherokee Nation Forest in extreme southeastern Tennessee. And what have I to report? Some neat birds, along with alot of other wildlife, of course! Unfortunately nearly, no, all of the neat birds that I sw or photographed were...
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Nesting osprey, and how to make the most of eBird's services

   I'm sure that most birders are aware of the wonderful services offered by Cornell Lab of Ornithology through eBird (learn more about eBird here), one of their many citizen science projects where ordinary birders just like you and me gather data for them to send to scientists for study....
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2nd eaglet hatches

   Today (4/4) the second eaglet, D19, hatched. There is now one egg left to hatch, which should do so in just a few days.
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First egg hatches

   At 10:22 EST, the first eaglet of the season, D18 hatched. Pictured below is a screen shot of the first glimpse of the newly-hatched eaglet.    The next eggs should hatch 3-4 days apart, and three days after this egg.
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