Photo Contest – People in Nature – 3rd Prize
Prize: People in Nature – 3rd Prize Winner’s name: Clyde Witt
Author: Sharon Swaney
Photo Contest – Youth – 3rd Prize
Prize: Youth – 3rd Prize Winner’s name: Sarah Cochran Home town: Aurora, OH Subject of photo: Dusty miller Where photo was taken: Petitti’s Garden Center Type of camera/lens used: iPod 5th Generation Story behind the picture: I usually take many pictures of the flower’s at...
Photo Contest – Birds – 1st Prize
Prize: Birds – 1st Prize Winner’s name: Daniel Zaas Home town: Solon, OH Subject of photo: Yellow warblers Where photo was taken: Juneau, Alaska Type of camera/lens used: Canon 70D, 70-200 Story behind the picture: Seen on a hike up Mt. Juneau
Photo Contest – Landscapes – 1st Prize
Prize: Landscapes – 1st Prize Winner’s name: Rob Swaney Home town: Aurora, OH Subject of photo: My front yard Where photo was taken: Aurora, OH Type of camera/lens used: Nikon Coolpix P600 (set on auto) Story behind the picture: Just wandering around the yard...
European Starling
This highly successful non-native, alien, invasive species was introduced to North America in 1890 by Eugene Scheifflin whose goal was to transplant all of the birds mentioned in William Shakespeare’s plays. Now our native cavity nesters are paying the price because the Starlings are usurping...
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Here is a warbler that nests in North-eastern Ohio. In all the years of John James Audubon’s time of bird study he only saw one! Today on a good day during spring migration several could easily be seen. This bird likes scruffy, brushy, successional habitat....
Great Blue Heron
These colony nesters are the largest herons we have in Ohio. They are hardy souls and some will stick with us all winter if there is some open water to fish in. Most migrate south for better fishing and frogging. They will eat just about...
Short-eared Owl
This owl is primarily a winter resident of Ohio but if the observer is in the right place at the right time it is one of the most easily observed owls as it is the most diurnal of our owls hunting and coursing over open...
