Cedar Bog Nature Preserve, Springfield OH 980 Woodburn Road, Urbana https://www.cedarbognp.org There is a fee to walk the boardwalk trail. Money well spent! Of all the places Cleon and I birded in around Dayton and Springfield, OH, this was our favorite. There is a Visitor’s Center with a small gift shop. […]
We had good birding weather when we were in and around Dayton. Partly sunny to sunny days in the high 70’s with low humidity. That has changed. The temperatures and humidity are both climbing. Skies are cloudy and sometimes stormy. Gallagher Fen State Nature Preserve, Springfield, OH. 4709 Old Columbus Rd. https://ohiodnr.gov/go-and-do/plan-a-visit/find-a-property/gallagher-fen-state-nature-preserve We stayed at […]
Englewood Metro Park. Dayton, OH https://www.metroparks.org/places-to-go/englewood/ There are 4 separate areas that make up Englewood Metro Park. We only had time to visit one of areas: the East Park. And we hit a bonanza of birds – the mother lode. You can get the addresses for each of the entrances from the above website. […]
Woodman Fen. 2409 Newcastle Drive, Dayton. https://www.metroparks.org/places-to-go/woodman-fen/ Some birding places are easy to find – this one would not be so easy. Luckily its address worked on the GPS in my phone which took us straight to the small parking lot. This fen is part of the city park system of Dayton. […]
One of the biggest birding hotspots in Ohio is Magee Marsh which is in the northern part of the state near Lake Erie. In fact, for 2 weeks every May, It is probably the hottest spot anywhere in the U.S. for migrating warblers. I have yet to go, but understand from friends who have been […]
If you have been watching the bird bath cam livestream, you will have noticed that I moved the oriole feeder lower and closer to the bird bath. When I moved it, I was uncertain if the new location would work as it is now quite close to the bird bath which many birds besides the […]
Beautiful day with only a slight breeze. Sunny. 45 – brisk! To begin, just where is The Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge and what is it like? The Alligator River NWR is on the easternmost point of the mainland of North Carolina. The Alligator River is the western border of this refuge. What is this […]
When I sat down at my desk this morning at 6:30AM, and looked out the window at the feeders, there was a male Northern Cardinal on the ground foraging under the platform feeder. Its mate and one of their juveniles were on that feeder. She was feeding the juvenile. In my opinion, mid-October is late […]
A pair of cardinals are still coming to the platform feeder very early each morning – at dawn, but before the sun breaks the horizon line. Here at our house, that is between about 6:10-6:40AM Central Time. The feedercam will be in black and white, but you will still be able to easily see these […]
Good Morning Everyone! It is 6:02AM Central Time and I am bleary-eyed at my desk having just taken my first sip of coffee. I just woke up the computer which runs the live-stream cameras. Even though it is still dark outside, the cameras do run all night and are lit so you can see black […]