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We're standing just outside the wet woodland habitat here at Sandy Ridge and

we'll be walking through that while there are a number of nice passerines to

be seen in spring and fall migrating through here and a limited number of

resident passerine birds the real value of Sandy Ridge is its marshes with the

wetland habitat providing a lot of space, habitat food for ducks, geese, swans,

wading birds, shorebirds, sandhill cranes have nested here in recent years there

is a longtime pair of resident Bald Eagles and other birds maybe other water

birds both birds related to water may be seen here as well.

For more infomation >> Hotspot Birding at Sandy Ridge Reservation Habitat - Duration: 0:50.

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Hotspot Birding with EBird Occurrence Graphs - Duration: 1:37.

Hotspot Birding will be dictated in some part by our review of eBird Illustrated

checklist which are essentially seasonal occurrence graphs or abundance graphs

giving us an idea of what birds are likely to be at a hotspot at any one

time. So in November, we'll be looking for waterfowl here at Sandy Ridge

Reservation and we know through these occurrence graphs that is the right time

to be here for many dabblers and some divers. For instance, we should have

opportunities to see Northern Shovelers, Northern Pintails, American Widgeon,

Green-winged Teal -- those birds in some abundance based on information we've

gleaned over these historical records taken from EBird and their seasonal

occurrence graphs or what they call their 'illustrated checklists'. In the

winter time, we'll be looking for gulls and we'll be using those same eBird

Illustrated checklists to give us an idea of where to look for the various

gulls, what the likelihood of seeing those gulls is, and working through the

locations where the likelihood of those gulls is greatest. Each of us that uses

eBird should be aware on the hotspot pages of these Illustrated checklists.

They're are terrific tools to help us really focus on one general group of

birds or many but certainly to know what birds are likely at a given hotspot at a

given time.

For more infomation >> Hotspot Birding with EBird Occurrence Graphs - Duration: 1:37.

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Waterfowl Hotspot Field Trip at Sandy Ridge Reservation - Duration: 1:09.

On Saturday, November 17th Western Cuyahoga Audubon will be doing a

Hotspot Birding Field Trip here at Sandy Ridge Reservation in Lorain

County. We'll be focusing on waterfowl and water birds primarily. It will be the

heart of waterfowl migration particularly for dabbling ducks, birds

like Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, American Widgeon, Green-winged Teal,

Mallards ... should all be a good number here in mid-November. We'll also be

looking for wading birds, Great Egrets and Herons, maybe even some late shorebirds

Dunlin, Yellowlegs, Snipe... those are the birds that we'll be focusing on in our Hotspot Birding.

Marshes here provide terrific habitat and food for birds in their migration and we'll be looking to take advantage of that.

For more infomation >> Waterfowl Hotspot Field Trip at Sandy Ridge Reservation - Duration: 1:09.

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DA PUMP、紅白出場が濃厚もNHKが「いまだに二の足を踏む」理由とは？ - Duration: 3:46.

For more infomation >> DA PUMP、紅白出場が濃厚もNHKが「いまだに二の足を踏む」理由とは？ - Duration: 3:46.

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Korea's trade surplus with U.S. drops compared to last year - Duration: 0:43.

South Korea's trade surplus with the U.S. shrank this year due to a surge in U.S. imports.

A report by the U.S. Census Bureau released Sunday shows...

South Korea's trade surplus with the U.S. was down 24 percent during the January-to-July

period... compared to the same period last year, amounting to nine-point-nine-billion

U.S. dollars.

In particular, South Korea's U.S. imports related to the energy industry rose amid higher

international oil prices and an increase in liquefied natural gas generators.

America's trade deficit with South Korea shrank by more than 24 percent on-year to three-point-two-billion

dollars.

For more infomation >> Korea's trade surplus with U.S. drops compared to last year - Duration: 0:43.

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Hotspot Birding at Sandy Ridge Reservation - Duration: 1:45.

We're here at Sandy Ridge Reservation in Lorain County. It's a 310 acre property

bought in 1990 now part of the Metro Park system here in Lorain County and we're

standing by a couple of the ponds behind the Nature Center. These ponds are fairly

healthy, they are surrounded by bull rushes and cattails ... we've seen turtles

and dragonflies here in late September and that speaks to the relative health

of this wetland area.The park is as I said 310 acres of mostly wet habitat so

there is some dry fields and some woodlands. The woodlands are wet

woodlands with a lot of water in the springtime.

but the real remarkable thing about Sandy Ridge is its rehabilitated

impoundments this area used to be completely wetlands and then for years

and years convert it to farmland and now has become the wetlands that it used to

be and continues to return to the natural wetlands habitat we're looking

to do a hotspot birding excursion here in November and we're going to be coming

here primarily to see waterfowl the swans the docks geese grieves and other

water related birds should be fairly abundant and we're looking forward to

spending some time going through those identifying them and enjoying them and

what we hope will be some relative abundance