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My Favorite Release

10,000 Birds

“Long story made some what short,” wrote Heather Merritt, with Birds in Flight Sanctuary in Warren, Ohio. “We We let a one-eyed Bald Eagle go after a year of battling state officials in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky. We laugh because we are pretty darn sure he beat us back into Ohio.

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Jinx Warbler Vanquished

10,000 Birds

I’ve rushed to spring reports of these birds in Columbus, Ohio’s Greenlawn Cemetery. It had become a joke among my birding pals here in Ohio, especially within the friendly confines of The Ohio Ornithological Society. Julie has seen or heard several on our farm here in southeast Ohio! But not me.