Sorry for the late post.  Friday afternoon I saw two cackling geese mixed 
in with a flock of Canada geese standing next to the pond at Rings and 
Frantz Rds. in Dublin.  I didn't have my camera with me at the time so I 
tried to take a picture of them with my phone.  As soon as I reached for 
it, they became aware of my presence, hopped in the pond and swam away.

Yesterday on the Hoover Christmas bird count the gray phase eastern 
screech owl was absent from his cavity near Lake Otterbein in Westerville 
and only one of the red phase screech owls was in the trestle bridge over 
Alum Creek.  I went back today and the gray phase is back but there is 
still only one red phase in the bridge.  We also just missed the great 
horned owl yesterday.  I met someone who lives nearby who sais he saw an 
owl being mobbed by crows in the exact spot we were looking for it.  From 
his description, it sounds like a great horned owl.

Al La Sala
Columbus, OH

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