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Winter 05-06

I have only just started atlassing a few blocks in the Adams and Scioto county area. Almost got washed away by today's rains and with a forecast of the same for tomorrow, I chose to make it an office day before heading back out. My experience with the songbirds was very much as already related by Joe MacMahon, Rob Thorn, and others.

I found Black Vultures only in two blocks straddling the Brown/Adams county line. Raptors were generally hard to come by, but American Kestrels were fairly distributed and the most prevalent raptor.

Adams Lake State Park hosted 51 Ring-necked Ducks, 5 Canvasbacks, 26 Mallards, and 154 Canada Geese.

Today, returning north, I stopped in at Lake White in Ross County where I had 494 Canada Geese, 48 Mallards, and a 3rd winter Bald Eagle perched on the south shore.

Yesterday, I had an Eastern Phoebe in Brush Creek Twp., Scioto County along Spruce Run (the farthest sw. OH hemlock ravine of which I am aware).

Sparrows, as others have noted, were especially difficult to come by. Juncos too were infrequently encountered in flocks of any size but one such flock this morning just south of Decatur (Byrd Twp,. Brown Co. on Rt. 125) held a striking adult male Oregon.

On the road in Shawnee State Forest, Scioto County