Date: 4/23/25 7:34 am From: Paul Mckay <paulmck57...> Subject: Ohio County Birds FOY
Hi Just a quick update on some firsts and some anomalies. Today was the first meadowlark and the first tree swallows, very late for them. Also today, it is possible that Merlin got into some mushrooms since it heard a Bobolink 3 times on my field. I could not hear it, but using the playback feature it was too weak for my ears and at two different pitches. Just call notes, similar to Sibley's Pink Call. Looking at an old Golden Guide and its sonagrams did not help since they skipped Bobolinks, so I will call this a hallucination. Although, I see no reason why it would not be there and the sonagram on Merlin looked good, but no proof. As an aside, one can easily match up the sonagram on merlin with the sonagram on the Golden Guide for most birds if one is looking for proof of a bird without a visual identification. Yesterday, was the first Yellow throated vireo, and Yellowthroat. 4-21 was the first Blue Gray Gnatcatcher Yellow Rumped Warbler. All of these were on my farm, while feeding my horse, except the Yellow Throated Vireo which was 200 yards west along route 88 in my front yard at first light. All the best.
-- Paul Paul M. McKay, Esq. 4404 Oglebay Drive Wheeling, WV, 26003 304 780 0557
