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Ohio Young Birders Club
CROWN POINT BIOBLITZ
July 7, 2007

Crown Point Farm and Education Center
Bath, Ohio

 
 

Some of the OYBC group started Friday evening looking for dragonflies.

 
And after dark we set up a light and a sheet to attract moths and insects.
 
Crane Fly
 
 
 
Larry Rosche, our dragonfly expert, showing the group a dragonfly.
 
Beaverpond Baskettail
 
Attendee, Robin Tener and volunteer, Lisa Chapman at
the registration table.
 
Crown Point's Executive Director, Sr. Joanne Buckman, saying a few words to the
Bioblitz attendees.
 
A group off to find butterflies and amphibians.
 
 
Todd Blackledge, our spider expert, showing Bianca and Darrick a spider.
 
 
Volunteers Dave Lewis and Larry Richardson
 
 
Amy & Sarah Winnicki botanizing with Verna Vander Kooi and Jim McCormac
 
 
Volunteer recorder Laurie Boylan with Larry Richardson and Jim McCormac
 
This group was inventorying the flora in the meadow.
 
Ian Adams, environmental photographer, and Jim McCormac, ODNR Ornithologist, looking at an Azure Bluet.
 
By noon everyone had worked up an appetite and looked
forward to sitting in the shade.
 
Everything was very dry, and only one garter snake was found.
 
 
Kathy Shafer, Ethan Kistler, Phil Chaon, Delores Cole, and Amy Berens winding down
in the shade
 
 
Bianca Davis, Kenn & Kim Kaufman and Darrick Geiser thanking the Crown Point staff for a wonderful day.
 
More photos coming soon!
 

 


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13551 W. State Route 2
Oak Harbor, Ohio 43449
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We are located at the entrance to Magee Marsh Wildlife Area

The mission of the Black Swamp Bird Observatory is to inspire the appreciation, enjoyment,
and conservation of birds and their habitats through research, education, and outreach.