ML623364876

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

Continuing juvenile (separated from adult by pale bill and feathers on neck and head), reported to be roosting here behind the house at 29123 Brush Run Road last night. Has been in the area for two weeks but has been roosting at more than one location. Birders welcome to look this evening if it returns. Left roost this morning at about 7:17 AM, seemed to descend somewhere out of view southwest of here, probably to a nearby private pond to forage. THANK YOU!!! to the Rabers for their hospitality and to Howard Gratz and Kent Miller for relaying the report to me last night. Incredibly the 3rd Knox Wood Stork record (that I know of!) in the last 3 weeks in what has been an unimaginable saga. The first of these records was a flock of TWENTY NINE (!!!?!) individuals dropping into a yard southwest of Mount Vernon on August 17th. An unprecedented number at this latitude. About a week after this I heard of two other sightings: one by Flack Rd. (this bird) and another report at an unknown-to-me location. This relocated bird is the first chaseable one!! (others reported late). I suspect the 2 more recent records are birds from the initial flock that have lingered around, but who knows? Other confirmed OH reports in the last month have come from Franklin, Lake, and Lorain counties.

Technical information

Model

COOLPIX P1000

ISO

800

Focal length

155 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

0.02 sec

Dimensions

2272 pixels x 1704 pixels

Original file size

1.51 MB