Christmas Bird Count, in the late 80's

The Columbus Dispatch article

Last time I was at my aunt and uncle's house, they wanted to share this article they found. It was from back in the 1985-89' timeframe we think. Fellow birder and nature lover James Fry would write a bi-weekly article for the Columbus Dispatch. I remember as a young birder meeting with and birding with Jim Fry out at Pickerington Ponds, Greenlawn Cemetery and Clear Creek Metro Park in Hocking county.

My father and uncle Mike helped conduct the annual CBC that year at Hoover, and even uncle Mike spotted the American Woodcock.  As you can ready, my father Buddy with ID help, confirmed the Baird's sandpiper, too bad this was not his illustration of the bird. 

This article shows how much change in the birding world we have seen in the decades since.  Birds that are common place now, where spare back then; and today it's hard to imagine that a house finch would be considered rare. So take a read and enjoy a little bit of Christmas Bird Count and central Ohio birding history.

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