Yes, NE Ohio does have Red-shouldered Hawks.   Who often nest close to people, several years ago they nested in a giant oak tree in a back yard, across the street from a shopping plaza.     Friends had a pair nest in their back yard, bringing frogs to the young,   both these areas are fairly close to Mosquito Creek.  Our Red-shouldered Hawks do like our creeks and wet areas.

Perhaps they are adapting or evolving to avoid the deep woods because of Great Horned Owls, who are themselves not as "common" as they once were.    I've had direct experience in observing the Great Horned's intolerance of the smaller Red-shouldered Hawk.

Red-shouldered numbers have varied on local Christmas Bird Counts, some years they are hard to find.       

Here's to their prosperity. 

Carole Babyak  Trumbull County

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