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Date Posted: 06:20:33 10/20/03 Mon
Author: Greg
Author Host/IP: cblmdm204-118-180-246.buckeye-express.com / 204.118.180.246
Subject: Oak Openings 10/19 (nothing rare)

Yesterday morning was a fine fall morning indeed, complete with crisp air and warm sunshine. John Chadwick and I decided to spend a few hours taking it all in at the Oak Openings, with dim hopes of a winter finch or decent hawk flight.

The park was flush in its fall splendor, and birds were simply abundant. By far, the most common bird encountered was Yellow-rumped warbler, which was virtually everywhere we went in high numbers. We easily encountered 150+ Yellow-rumps in our 3 and a half hours there. Their "chek" notes filled the air throughout.

ANYWAY, of mild interest to some may be the good numbers of Purple finches we encountered. We saw and/or heard maybe 15 Purples finches (males and females) at the corner of Girdham/Reed, in the stand of cedars as well as along Reed road where Swan creek crosses.

We bumped into a tardy Blackpoll warbler along Monclova road, east of Girdham.

A stunningly colored Pine warbler (not too often those words are used to describe a Pine warbler!) was a real visual pleasure on the north side of Reed road, just east of Jeffers in the pine stand there.

Also along Reed road, between Girdham and Jeffers, there is a juniper stand that is completely overloaded with berries and attracting hundreds of American robins, Cedar waxwings, and more. While we did not find our hoped-for Townsend's Solitaire, this juniper stand is well worth checking out as often as possible.

We left by noon, so we cannot be sure about the hawk flight, but by the time we left, very few hawks were moving. We encountered only a handful of Turkey vultures, Red-tails and a single migrant Coopers.

Greg

PS

Purple finches seem to be scattered in low numbers throughout the area. There have been birds at Wildwood metropark (Art Osborn) and Secor Metropark (Eric Durbin) as well.

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