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on the subject of nature march 2013 on the subject of nature a blog about the natural world around us whether it be birds insects plants geology or more sunday march 31 2013 bald eagle nest and update so saturday i headed out to orr road in ross county ohio to check out the local bald eagle nest i m not exactly sure how old it is but i do know this nest site is at least a few years old note if you go to see this nest site notice it is on private property and you should never leave your car not only is it illegal to get closer it also causes the eagles unnecessary stress and i don t have to point out what that could do we traveled on down the road constantly scanning the tree line for a giant nest finally i spotted it off in the distance along the scioto river which orr road travels along at some parts pulling up we were greeted with this obviously an eagle nest the thing is massive but it was pushing the range of my measly 200mm lens so let s see if we can zoom in without too bad of a result not the best quality but you get the point you can see a bald eagle sitting on the nest the mate was just off screen a few trees over i couldn t get any awesome photos so this will have to do for now the nest was right along the scioto river which offers these eagles plentiful and easily caught food and if that isn t enough bald eagle hunting ranges very from 1 700 to 10 000 acres there are tons of lakes ponds and so on within that range so these guys are set on another note spring is finally coming i think the recent weather has thrown everyone for a loop regardless as of tuesday morning i ll be in sunny florida the circleville marching band of which i am a mellophone player is going down to perform at epcot and just generally enjoy disney world i might have a small post on anything interesting i see there but i m not sure i want this to stay ohio oriented but i don t know i guess we will see have a great week posted by kyle brooks at 8 21 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels nature ohio photography parks birding birds ross county ohio sunday march 10 2013 hargus trip well i went out to aw marion state park again it s right outside of town so i go there a lot it s large too so there s always something to find aw marion state park normally known as hargus lake by the locals is a decently sized state park with a man made lake at the center there s fishing camping hiking a marina and lots more to do there anyway i traveled out there on friday and saturday for about 2 hours each i try to do some photography in my spare time and that was the main goal on friday on the 5 mile perimeter trail there s a little area about a mile in on the dam side that has some small cascades here s a shot of one of the small waterfalls when i was taking this i heard some quiet thumps coming from beside me i looked up just in time to see about 5 white tailed deer bounding across the stream about 20 feet in front of me and up a hill they covered the steep hill like you or i would while walking on flat ground it was amazing a minute later some dogs and a runner came down the trail from where the deer came from so they must have scared them up here s another shot of the cascades farther down the stream to the left of this is a small but deep pool that s home to a few fish including an 8 inch or so fish that my girlfriend and i found last year while i was taking these shots i heard some noise i looked up and to my surprise woah a male pileated woodpecker this normally timid bird was in the process of making his nesting cavity for the upcoming spring and paid no heed to the human playing down in the creek i took out my 200mm lens and shot off a few photos this gives you an idea of the size pileated woodpeckers are huge this is a large sycamore tree and as you can see the pileated is taking up a sizable portion of it in fact these crow sized woodpeckers are the largest woodpeckers in north america barring the existence of living ivory billed woodpeckers which are most likely all extinct their holes are very easy to id they are very squarish with rounded sides unlike some birds pileated woodpeckers only use their nest for one year after that year the cavity is now open and well utilized by many other forest dwelling animals in fact next year i m going to have to keep tabs on this cavity to see if anything else moves in like an eastern screech owl here s some of the other birds present on friday these are two lesser scaups a type of diving duck there were a lot of them out that day along with hooded mergansers buffleheads and mallards the next day i went saturday there were red breasted mergansers lesser scaups mallards gadwalls and american wigeons the gadwalls red breasted mergansers and american wigeons were all lifers for me for those people who are not familiar with birding terms a lifer is the first time a person sees a certain species and as always the ever present canada geese were there both days here s another shot of the lesser scaups as they madly ran swam away from me as i approached them on the trail at least i m 90 sure they re all lesser scaups lesser and greater scaups are almost impossible to tell apart in certain cases if there are both species in one area they are easier to tell apart due to size differences but when you get a few like this it is a lot harder head shape is the big diagnostic except sometimes the feathers shift which makes them look like each other for a few minutes in ohio if you see a scaup on an interior lake it is most likely a lesser greater scaups are found more often on lake erie although not always they could be anywhere scaups have been my iding nightmare bird this winter spring is definitely here song sparrows northern cardinals american robins mourning doves red winged blackbirds house finches and more are singing as other blogs and people have pointed out other harbingers are popping up like skunk cabbage check out jim mccormac s blog post on skunk cabbage to learn more about that the warm weather this weekend was definitely nice to have but it looks like it s going to quickly disappear for the rest of this week posted by kyle brooks at 9 32 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels nature ohio photography parks birding birds photography pickaway county ohio waterfalls location a w marion state park warner huffer road circleville oh 43113 usa newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me kyle brooks view my complete profile about this blog the natural world is filled with incredible and intriguing plants animals and places on the subject of nature aims to highlight such interesting subjects and talk about the science and the issues surrounding them this blog will cover a wide range of topics from the obscure to the mundane the tiniest insects to earth altering geologic forces the latest scientific trends to the most basic natural history 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