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Date: 6/26/26 7:33 am From: Bob McNulty <0000066f33ed1548-dmarc-request...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Batelle Darby Metro Park June 25. (9Am to 1 PM)
Dickcissel. On Kuhlwein Rd and the parking lot area of wetlands
Bell’s vireo. Several singing along Kuhlwein Rd. Saw one after a lot of watching.
Common yellow throats
Yellow warbler. (Heard)
Yellow billed cuckoo
Sora rails. Rail way trail (boardwalk)
Willow flycatcher
Wood ducks
Great egret
Marsh wrens (heard)
Bob McNulty
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Date: 6/25/26 6:45 am From: <eagleredheart...> <0000058abbfed79a-dmarc-request...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Merlin this morning
This morning I was out for a walk here in Worthington, I was coming down the street to my house when I heard a very loud, somewhat familiar call - but I didn't know what it was. I put on the Merlin recording app - this bird was loud but I couldn't see it in a tree above me across the street.  Merlin said it was a Merlin.   I didn't believe it because I normally see them in Spring and Fall/Winter during migration. But this is height of breeding season.  So I decided to check call recordings on the app and the second one in was exactly what this bird was calling. I didn't leave it on long and just stood and watched/waited. It called more and then I saw it fly and circle three times between nearby trees - maybe 50 feet above me. Could not get a photo of course on the IPhone. But I saw it and heard it clearly.Â
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Date: 6/22/26 1:42 pm From: Sandra Keller <000007a762f332b7-dmarc-request...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Hamilton big year
I am stuck on 210. I am always looking for needed species. Like BB Cuckoo and
Screech owl! But am not spending all my time on the big year. It’s odes and butterfly
Time! And come August I'll be hitting that drawn down lake in Kentucky. The shorebirds
We’re super this past late spring! I wonder how the birds found it. It’s never been drawn
Down before. It’s not like the birds hit it every year…
Good birding all. Still lots to see and hear out there! The birds are enjoying a good
Breeding season I presume. All the rain and bugs are good!
Sandra Keller
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Date: 6/14/26 12:06 am From: Robert Thorn <robthorn6...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] ClearCreekMetroPark,6-13: warblers,vireos,cuckoos
The Columbus Audubon field trip to the forested valley of Clear Creek on Saturday had a great day of birding. The 12 participants were treated to a steady stream of singing and/or nesting residents as we hiked around the Creekside Meadows Trail, the lower tavines of the Hemlock & Fern Trails, and the hillside trails at the Barneby Center. Highlights included:
Raptors -- heard Red-shouldered, and actually saw Broad-winged twice (Starner Road and Barneby Center), along with a steady trickle of Turkey Vultures.
Cuckoos -- abundant Yellow-billed, calling everywhere once it warmed up. A running gag of the trip was 'it's just another cuckoo'.
Woodpeckers -- surprisingly scarce, but did have Red-bellied, Downies, and heard Pileated
Flycatchers -- Pewees, Phoebes, Acadians, with the latter calling in most forest areas
Vireos -- Red-eyed abundant, but also had singing Yellow-throated and White-eyed in several areas and had beautiful looks at nesting Blue-headed along the Fern Trail
Wrens,Gnatcatcher -- House Wrens & Carolina Wrens at scattered sites; our only Gnatcatcher was at Barneby Center
Thrushes -- Wood Thrushes were abundant, but heard Veeries along the Creekside Trail and singing Hermit Thrushes on the Hemlock & Fern Trails
Mimids -- Catbirds were abundant, and the active family of Brown Thrashers continues to put on a show at the Fern Trail picnic area.
Waxwings -- a pair of Cedar Waxwings was foraging near the Fern Trail picnic area
Warblers -- less singing than hoped for, but still found 12 species, including Worm-eating (Hemlock & Fern Trails), Cerulean (several on Creekside Meadows Trail), N.Parula (scarce), N.Yellow, Black&White, Redstarts (common on Creekside Meadows Tr.), CommonYellowthroat, Yellow-throated (scarce), Hooded, Kentucky (only heard 1 on the Tulip tree Trail), Ovenbirds, Louisiana Waterthrush (several places, but had 3 foraging on a gravel bar at the junction of Hemlock & Clear Creeks)
Sparrows -- Chipping, Song, and E.Towhee, with Towhees singing at many locations
Icterids -- Baltimore Orioles along Creekside Meadows, with 1 coming down to bathe in the Creek); few Grackles, lots of Cowbirds
Cardinalids -- heard Scarlet Tanagers & Indigo Buntings at several spots, but rarely saw them. Cardinals were common.
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Date: 6/10/26 2:51 pm From: Canterbury, Ronald (canterrd) <00000951b275ca19-dmarc-request...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Limpkin Sighting from 8 January 2024
If the anonymous eBirder who photographed the Limpkin seen on 8 January 2024 at ONWR - Crane Creek Estuary, checklist link below, see this, would you please email me off list? Email is: <ron.canterbury...>
Ronald A. Canterbury
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Date: 6/10/26 2:32 pm From: Sandra Keller <000007a762f332b7-dmarc-request...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Hamilton big year
Picked up least bitter, bells vireo, Acadian, and nighthawk since I returned from
Vacation. Now it gets tough for a couple months! I need BB cuckoo and
Grasshopper sparrow yet for the big year. I went on a cuckoo quest today.
The Shawnee lookout area. No….. that is a beautiful spot though! I am looking
Forward to some hikes in areas over the summer. Hit a dragonfly spot. That’s
Going to be fun this summer!
Good birding all.
Sandra Keller
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Date: 6/8/26 5:39 pm From: Douglas Vogus <vogeye...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Ottawa NWR Monthly Census
JUNE 07, 2026 - OTTAWA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE MONTHLY CENSUS. ROUTE: East Side, West Side, Western Prairies, Henry Marsh, and Fox Unit in the morning; Wildlife Drive in the afternoon - except where closed for eagle nesting - no afternoon Lake Erie access. TIME: 7:30am - 12:00pm; 12:50pm - 2:35pm TIME AFIELD: 6:15 TEMP.: 67F ~ 75F COND.: Warm, breezy, and pleasant. OBS. EAST: Jim Koppin, Al & Betty Schlecht. OBS. WEST: Susan Brauning, Jennifer Kuehn, Donna Kuhn, David & Kim Myles, George Novosel, Chris Pierce, Tracy Wiczer. OBS. WESTERN PRAIRIES & HENRY MARSH: Douglas W. Vogus. OBS. FOX UNIT: Jim Koppin, Al & Betty Schlecht (parking lot only); Douglas W. Vogus (half the prairie trail due to time constraints). OBS. WILDLIFE DRIVE: Jim Koppin, Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 7 SPECIES, 45 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Eastern Cottontail - 16 2. Woodchuck - 9 3. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 9 4. Common Muskrat - 1 5. Common Raccoon - 6 (2 young) (Tied Census High from 06/2023 & 08/2025) 6. Striped Skunk - 1 (First June Record on Census & Tied Census High from 03/2008, 09/2012, 05/2023, 07/2024, 02/2025 & 02/2026) 7. White-tailed Deer - 3 (1 buck,1 doe,1 fawn)
II. BIRDS: 84 SPECIES, 3,475 TOTAL. (Recorded since 03/02/1969)
1. Canada Goose - 403 2. Trumpeter Swan - 151 (5 cygnets) 3. Wood Duck - 122 (8 ducklings) 4. Mallard - 17 5. Green-winged Teal - 1 (D. Vogus - fly-over at Grimm Prairie) 6. Canvasback - 1 (m) (G. Novosel's Group - Third June Record on Census) 7. Pied-billed Grebe - 6 8. Mourning Dove - 27 9. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 3 10. Common Gallinule - 11 11. Sandhill Crane - 11 12. Black-necked Stilt - 2 (Third June Record on Census) 13. Killdeer - 20 14. American Woodcock - 3 (family group along "Henry's Trail" north end of Henry Marsh) 15. Spotted Sandpiper - 1 (Henry's Pond) 16. Ring-billed Gull - 11 17. American Herring Gull - 2 18. Black Tern - 3 19. Common Tern - 1 20. Double-crested Cormorant - 6 21. American White Pelican - 33 22. Least Bittern - 1 23. Green Heron - 2 24. Great Egret - 64 25. Great Blue Heron - 41 26. Turkey Vulture - 19 27. Osprey - 1 28. Cooper's Hawk - 1 29. Bald Eagle - 36 (18 adult,16 immature,2 juvenile) 30. Red-tailed Hawk - 1 31. Great Horned Owl - 2 (1 young) 32. Red-headed Woodpecker - 5 33. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 9 34. Downy Woodpecker - 5 35. Hairy Woodpecker - 1 36. Northern Flicker - 14 37. Pileated Woodpecker - 3 (one on the East Side, two on the West Side in the South Woods and the North Woods - New Census High - previous was 2 on 09/2025) 38. American Kestrel - 1 (f) (Fox Unit parking lot) 39. Great Crested Flycatcher - 6 40. Eastern Kingbird - 14 41. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 7 42. Willow Flycatcher - 23 43. Eastern Warbling Vireo - 56 44. Red-eyed Vireo - 9 45. Blue Jay - 23 46. Black-capped Chickadee - 2 47. Tufted Titmouse - 2 48. Tree Swallow - 427 49. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1 50. Purple Martin - 83 51. Barn Swallow - 82 52. Cedar Waxwing - 13 53. White-breasted Nuthatch - 4 54. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 55. Carolina Wren - 6 56. Northern House Wren - 29 57. Marsh Wren - 13 58. Gray Catbird - 32 59. Brown Thrasher - 4 60. Northern Mockingbird - 1 61. European Starling - 95 62. Wood Thrush - 4 63. American Robin - 52 64. House Sparrow - 9 65. House Finch - 6 66. American Goldfinch - 23 67. Chipping Sparrow - 1 68. Field Sparrow - 7 69. Song Sparrow - 73 70. Swamp Sparrow - 7 71. Eastern Meadowlark - 1 (Grimm Prairie) 72. Orchard Oriole - 1 (north end of Henry Marsh) 73. Baltimore Oriole - 16 74. Red-winged Blackbird - 946 75. Brown-headed Cowbird - 12 76. Common Grackle - 86 77. Ovenbird - 1 (Myles' Group - Sixth June Record on Census) 78. Prothonotary Warbler - 7 79. Common Yellowthroat - 42 80. Northern Yellow Warbler - 143 81. Scarlet Tanager - 1 82. Northern Cardinal - 30 83. Indigo Bunting - 28 84. Dickcissel - 2 (both males in Grimm Prairie)
??. Unidentified *Empidonax* Flycatcher - 1
III. REPTILES: 7 SPECIES, 75 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Common Snapping Turtle - 8 (three females laying eggs) 2. Northern Map Turtle - 30 3. Midland Painted Turtle - 33 (one hatchling dead in Grimm Prairie & one adult run over on the Wildlife Drive) 4. Eastern Spiny Softshell - 1 5. Northern Water Snake - 1 6. Eastern Garter Snake - 1 7. Eastern Fox Snake - 1 (plus one dead) (one four-footer at the turnaround on Lindsey-Limestone Rd. & one two-and-a half-footer run over on Krause Rd.)
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 3 SPECIES, 17 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. American Bullfrog - 7 2. Green Frog - 9 3. Northern Leopard Frog - 1
V. FISHES: 2 SPECIES, 8 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Bowfin - 1 (in the ditch along Stange Rd. - Fourth June Record on Census) 2. Common Carp - 7 (all in the ditch along Stange Rd.)
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 20 SPECIES, 187 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Eastern Black Swallowtail - 5 2. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 2 3. Cabbage Butterfly - 127 4. Clouded Sulphur - 3 5. Orange Sulphur - 2 (Second June Record on Census) 6. American Copper - 1 (Third June Record on Census) 7. Bronze Copper - 1 (Second June Record on Census) 8. Spring Azure - 5 (Fourth June Record on Census & Tied Census High from 05/2021) 9. Summer Azure - 3 (Fifth June Record on Census) 10. Pearl Crescent - 2 11. Question Mark - 1 (Second June Record on Census) 12. Red Admiral - 3 13. Red-spotted Purple - 1 (Fifth June Record on Census) 14. Northern Pearly Eye - 2 (First June Record on Census) 15. Viceroy - 2 16. Monarch - 2 17. Silver-spotted Skipper - 15 (New Census High - previous was 11 on 06/2009) 18. Least Skipper - 7 19. Peck's Skipper - 2 (First June Record on Census) 20. Dun Skipper - 1 (Second Record on Census, First June Record on Census & Tied Census High from 08/2013)
VII. MOTHS & CATERPILLARS: 3 SPECIES, 3 TOTAL. (Recorded since 04/07/2002)
1. Sod Webworm Moth - 1 (Third Record on Census & First June Record on Census) 2. Eight-spotted Forester - 1 (New Species on Census - currently at 29 Moth Species since 04/07/2002) 3. Common Tan Wave Moth - 1 (New Species on Census - currently at 30 Moth Species since 04/07/2002)
VIII. DRAGONFLIES & DAMSELFLIES: 10 SPECIES.
1. Common Green Darner 2. Halloween Pennant (Third June Record on Census) 3. Eastern Pondhawk 4. Twelve-spotted Skimmer (Third June Record on Census) 5. Blue Dasher 6. Common Whitetail (Second June Record on Census) 7. Black Saddlebags 8. Slender Spreadwing 9. Violet Dancer - 1 (First June Record on Census) 10. Eastern Forktail
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Date: 6/5/26 7:13 am From: Bruce Simpson <nylebruce...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Lake Hope St Pk Zaleski St F-20 Warblers 4 Vireos Hawks Woodpeckers Songbirds
I visited the area May 30-31, June 1-3
There was little activity compared to most visits The activity did increase as the week went along Many Birds must be Nesting
Highlights
Chuck-will-widow—Flushed
YBCH-Orange breast
YBCU-perched on a horizontal branch-back almost horizontal also The bird slowly raises its tail multiple times ?
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Date: 6/3/26 4:30 pm From: Douglas Vogus <vogeye...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Cuyahoga Valley Towpath Trail Census 06/02/26
JUNE 02, 2026 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY MONTHLY TOWPATH TRAIL CENSUS. ROUTE: Red Lock Trailhead south to Merriman Valley, with a stop at the Peninsula Coffee House for lunch. TIME: 5:55am - 5:30pm TIME AFIELD: 11:25 TEMP.: 45F ~ 76F ~ 75F COND.: Cool early, turning sunny with blue skies; winds light and variable; warm, pleasant, and beautiful. TRAIL COND.: Excellent - dry, no puddles or mud. RIVER COND.: Normal, but still slightly turbid even with the lack of rain. FT. MI.: 14.40 OBS.: John Henry and Douglas W. Vogus.
I. MAMMALS: 10 SPECIES, 132 TOTAL MAMMALS.
1. Eastern Cottontail - 3 2. Eastern Chipmunk - 81 3. Woodchuck - 2 4. Eastern Gray Squirrel - 10 (3 black morph) 5. Eastern Fox Squirrel - 2 6. Red Squirrel - 13 7. American Beaver - 1 (Third June Record on Census) 8. Common Muskrat - 2 9. Common Raccoon - 7 (2 adults,one with 5 young) (Third June Record on Census & New Census High - previous was 3 on 07/2017) 10. White-tailed Deer - 11 (4 buck,6 does,1 unknown)
II. BIRDS: 85 SPECIES, 911 TOTAL BIRDS. (New June High - previous was 82 in 2023) (NOTE: m = male; f = female; ? = bird was seen but not sexed; * = bird was heard calling but not sexed)
1. Canada Goose - 71 (26 goslings) 2. Wood Duck - 32 (8f,24 goslings - in family groups of 5,6,6 & 7) 3. Mallard - 13 (11m,2f) 4. Common Merganser - 4 (f) (Fifth June Record on Census) 5. Rock Pigeon - 2 6. Mourning Dove - 21 7. Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 3 8. Common Nighthawk - 3 (over Red Lock Trailhead at start of census - First June Record on Census) 9. Chimney Swift - 8 10. Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 (*) 11. Killdeer - 4 12. Spotted Sandpiper - 3 13. Ring-billed Gull - 1 (fly-over at Boston - Fifth June Record on Census) 14. Double-crested Cormorant - 1 (adult) (fly-over at Boston - Second June Record on Census) 15. Green Heron - 3 16. Great Blue Heron - 8 (one caught an unknown prey item - vole, duckling, other?) 17. Turkey Vulture - 16 18. Osprey - 1 (Third June Record on Census) 19. Cooper's Hawk - 1 (m) (Fifth June Record on Census) 20. Bald Eagle - 1 (adult) 21. Broad-winged Hawk - 4 22. Red-tailed Hawk - 6 23. Belted Kingfisher - 2 (1m,1f) 24. Red-headed Woodpecker - 4 25. Red-bellied Woodpecker - 13 (1f,1 juvenile,1?,10*) 26. Downy Woodpecker - 8 (1?,3 juv.?,3 juv.*,1*) 27. Hairy Woodpecker - 3 (1?,2*) 28. Northern Flicker - 4 (2m,1?,1*) (one nest in a dead snag) 29. Pileated Woodpecker - 5 (1?,4*) 30. American Kestrel - 1 (f) (being chased by an Eastern Kingbird behind the Akron Compost Facility - Third June Record on Census) 31. Great Crested Flycatcher - 8 (one bird on ground gathering nesting material) 32. Eastern Kingbird - 3 33. Eastern Wood-Pewee - 5 34. Acadian Flycatcher - 4 35. Alder Flycatcher - 1 (East side of Stanford Swamp - Third Record on Census & Third June Record on Census) 36. Willow Flycatcher - 3 (one nest in a willow patch) 37. Eastern Phoebe - 5 38. Yellow-throated Vireo - 2 39. Eastern Warbling Vireo - 24 40. Red-eyed Vireo - 35 (New Census High - previous was 33 on 06/2019) 41. Blue Jay - 10 42. American Crow - 10 43. Black-capped Chickadee - 5 44. Tufted Titmouse - 8 45. Bank Swallow - 4 46. Tree Swallow - 10 47. Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 13 48. Barn Swallow - 9 49. Cliff Swallow - 4 (Second June Record on Census & New Census High - previous was 3 on 06/2024) 50. Cedar Waxwing - 21 51. White-breasted Nuthatch - 5 (1m,1f,3*) 52. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 (1f,1?,1*) 53. Carolina Wren - 7 54. Northern House Wren - 4 55. Gray Catbird - 21 56. European Starling - 53 57. Eastern Bluebird - 2 (1f,1*) 58. Veery - 2 59. Wood Thrush - 3 60. American Robin - 44 (2 juvenile) 61. House Sparrow - 23 62. House Finch - 6 (5m,1f) 63. American Goldfinch - 9 (4m,1f,4*) 64. Chipping Sparrow - 2 65. Field Sparrow - 1 66. Song Sparrow - 44 67. Swamp Sparrow - 9 68. Eastern Towhee - 1 (m) 69. Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 (calling east of Stanford Trailhead - same place as last year - Third June Record on Census) 70. Orchard Oriole - 7 (6m,1 immature m) 71. Baltimore Oriole - 20 (18m,2f) (one nest in an eastern sycamore) 72. Red-winged Blackbird - 68 (38m,25f,5 juvenile) (one female gathering nesting material) 73. Brown-headed Cowbird - 5 (4m,1f) 74. Common Grackle - 26 75. Louisiana Waterthrush - 2 76. Blue-winged Warbler - 1 (m) 77. Common Yellowthroat - 18 (m) 78. Hooded Warbler - 5 (4m,1*) 79. American Redstart - 1 (m) 80. Northern Yellow Warbler - 24 (21m,3f) (one nest in a currently unidentified "ornamental dogwood" tree & one nest in a multi-flora rose) 81. Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 (m) 82. Scarlet Tanager - 2 (m) 83. Northern Cardinal - 28 (21m,5f,2 juv.*) 84. Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 8 (7m,1f) 85. Indigo Bunting - 12 (11m,1f)
??. Unidentified Passerines - 6
III. REPTILES: 3 SPECIES, 67 TOTAL REPTILES.
1. Common Snapping Turtle - 19 (New Census High - previous was 18 on 06/2020) 2. Red-eared Turtle - 1 3. Midland Painted Turtle - 47
IV. AMPHIBIANS: 2 SPECIES, 17 TOTAL AMPHIBIANS.
1. American Bullfrog - 2 (1 seen,1 heard) 2. Green Frog - 15 (3 seen,12 heard)
V. FISHES: 4 SPECIES, 79 TOTAL FISHES.
1. Central Mudminnow - 2 2. Golden Shiner - 70 (Second June Record on Census & New Census High - previous was 60 on 07/2016) 3. Bluntnose Minnow - 4 4. Pumpkinseed - 3
VI. BUTTERFLIES: 12 SPECIES, 35 TOTAL BUTTERFLIES.
1. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 6 2. Cabbage Butterfly - 13 3. Clouded Sulphur - 1 (Fifth June Record on Census) 4. Summer Azure - 1 5. Pearl Crescent - 2 6. Question Mark - 1 (Third June Record on Census) 7. Red Admiral - 3 8. Little Wood Satyr - 2 9. Monarch - 1 10. Silver-spotted Skipper - 2 11. Wild Indigo Duskywing - 1 (First June Record on Census) 12. Zabulon Skipper - 2
VII. MOTHS/CATERPILLARS: 5 SPECIES, (3 FIRST OF CENSUS), 6 TOTAL MOTHS.
1. Three-patched Bigwing - 1 (Second Record on Census, Second June Record on Census & Tied Census High from 06/2022) 2. Grayish Zanclagnotha - 2 (New Species on Census - currently at 58 Moth/Caterpillar Species since 01/2010) 3. White Spring Moth - 1 (New Species on Census - currently ay 59 Moth/Caterpillar Species since 01/2010) 4. Spotted Thyris - 1 (New Species on Census - currently at 60 Moth/Caterpillar Species since 01/2010) 5. White-striped Black Moth - 1 (Fourth Record on Census & First June Record on Census)
VIII. DRAGONFLIES & DAMSELFLIES: 11 SPECIES, 49 TOTAL ODONATA.
1. Common Green Darner - 2 2. Swamp Darner - 2 (Third Record on Census, Second June Record on Census & Tied Census High from 06/2022) 3. Common Baskettail - 3 4. Eastern Pondhawk - 2 (Fifth June Record on Census) 5. Dot-tailed Whiteface - 13 (all at Ira Beaver Marsh - New Census High - previous was 8 on 06/2023) 6. Slaty Skimmer - 1 7. Common Whitetail - 4 8. Ebony Jewelwing - 16 9. Blue-tipped Dancer - 3 10. Azure Bluet - 1 11. Double-striped Bluet - 2 (Second Record on Census, Second June Record on Census & New Census High - previous was 1 on 06/2023)
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Date: 6/2/26 1:35 pm From: Canterbury, Ronald (canterrd) <00000951b275ca19-dmarc-request...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Data for Spring 2026 Ohio Cardinal
Dear Birders,
This is the email for Spring 2026 data. Please send your March through May 2026 sightings to:
Ron Canterbury, 1585 Summit Hills Drive, Cincinnati OH, 45255 or <ron.canterbury...>
In addition to sightings, we welcome photos, anecdotes, book/e-media/app reviews, general interest articles, and research papers. If you enter your sightings into eBird, you do not need to send a report – we download all the entries directly from Cornell. Feel free, however, to expand on items in your eBird list in a separate note to me, because I can’t look at every note in eBird.
If you attach a file (Word, Excel, ASCII text, or similar) to an email, please include your name and the season in the file name and also within the file itself. Calling the file “smith-spring26” instead of “sightings” will save me time. And digital photo files, please; send prints only with prior approval. If you post photos to FaceBook, Flickr, or the like, you can send me links to them rather than the photo files themselves. Photos and links go to Photo Editor Tom Fishburn, <tom561tom...>
The deadline is June 30. Thank you in advance. As for a Cardinal update, once I get to the photos' captions and a OBRC report, I will have drafted the Winter 2023/2024 issue. I apologize that I am so far behind. Please stay with the OOS and Cardinal, as you all know birds are declining rapidly and need our help! One thing is clear, with my academic job (teaching, research, etc.), after three years on the helm as editor, I cannot move faster! I'm sorry, I've tried immensely!
I am always looking for ideas and help in trying to catch up. If questions, then email me directly at <ron.canterbury...>
Have a great summer!
Ron Canterbury
Ronald A. Canterbury
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