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Date Posted: 06:28:32 11/19/03 Wed
Author: Greg
Author Host/IP: cblmdm204-118-180-246.buckeye-express.com / 204.118.180.246
Subject: On this day in 1995...

Durbin, Chadwick and I had just come from an uneventful early morning of birding at Maumee Bay State Park. While driving to Crane Creek/Magee, I harmlessly commented "what a great day to see a Gyrfalcon", or something along those lines, in passing, as most birders will do on occasions when the birding has been slow. And as usual, the comment was simply passed off, as it should have been.

Not more than 2 hours after making that statement, we found ourselves driving down the Magee causeway, eyeball to eyeball with a dark-phased GYRFALCON, only a handful of yards away from the car.

"There it is!! That's it!! That's it!!" Durbin yelled, uncontrollably. "Gyrfalcon!!"

Not long after our initial meeting, the big Gyr flapped a few times, and raced down the causeway. I "chased" it with the car (I cannot incriminate myself by telling you how fast I was actually driving down that causeway), but alas, we were no match for the hurried falcon. As sudden as it appeared, the bird was gone.

As far as I know, this Gyrfalcon is the last one reported from the immediate Toledo area (that winter, a bird spent the cold months at a Paulding County cement plant, I do believe).

Greg Links

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