Friday February 24th - Western Meadowlark
Friday
February 24th – Western Meadowlark
This rare bird turned up in our neck of
the woods! A Western Meadowlark looks
almost identical to an Eastern Meadowlark, and are best distinguished by
their songs which are very different. The
Western Meadowlark had been seen at Howard Marsh Metropark and the ID was
confirmed by its song. Friday morning,
we went to look for it. The bird was
being seen by three big rocks in a meadow just off the main entrance road.
We parked the car there and waited for about
10 minutes until the meadowlark showed up.
It perched fairly close to us, and we could hear it singing its western
song. The Western Meadowlark is rare in
Ohio but is common in the western United States. This is another bird that we that we did not
see last year. As a matter of fact, we
have only seen it two other times in Ohio.
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