You have to be outside and listening before first light or just at dusk. Listening is the key. Because they’re migrating through southwest Ohio, so is timing. The return trip These same birds ...

They eat in the morning, rest during the hot part of the day, and eat again toward dusk. Sometimes they go for a bath in a creek. A bird of prey—a goshawk—has a nest high in a nearby tree ...

In eastern wooded suburbs, this small, owl is often the most common avian predator, emerging from its nest or roost hole at dusk to hawk insects ... when flattened the bird has a round-headed ...

By nature, this bird is crepuscular. This means it is active only in the dusk of the evening, after the sun has set but before it gets dark, and again in the morning, just as it’s getting light.