> Greetings!
> Things have started to slow down at the banding stations--Sat we only
> banded 21 birds (no recaptures!). Birds included a Winter Wren, two Field
> Sparrows, 6 Hermit Thrushes, and the usual 7 White-throated Sparrows. The
> bird of the day however, was a hatch-year male Sharp-shinned Hawk [see
> attached]!!! This is only the second Sharpie we have banded (the first was
> last year on Dec 4 also at Hueston Woods).
> On a different note, Bill Heck and I ran out to Brookville Lake after
> banding on Sat to look for the Black-legged Kittiwake Bill Buskirk found
> earlier that morning.  We found the bird just as described by Bill off
> Mounds Beach. We watched it for five minutes or so [got distracted] and
> then could not relocate the bird. I hope everyone whose interested get a
> chance to find this really exceptional bird for southern OH and IN!
> Dave