Hi Everyone,

I neglected to mention in my earlier 'yard birds' that I visited the Zanesville Putnam's Landing yesterday to search for the earlier mentioned eagles.

I had been there a couple of weeks earlier and a nearby gentleman eagerly explained that he'd been watching the 'eagles' all morning.  During our conversation he pointed them out to me as two birds flew up and down the river bank while he discussed their 'field marks .. white heads, bellies, larger size.  Alas, he neglected to notice other marks, shape, behavior.  I pulled out my field guides to help him learn to ID what he was really looking at...ring-billed gulls!!!

On yesterday's visit I again lucked out on the eagles.  I wonder if anyone has seen them recently?  

They've not been mentioned on the list for a while.  However, among the many gulls, mallards, Canada geese, occassional Coot I did discover a grebe.  I'm not real certain of my ID but think it was a Horned Grebe because the neck was quite white with just a thin stripe of black on the neck back up near the head.  I couldn't ID the head shape adequately.  The black of the crown just came down to the eye level but was not  very sharply defined.  I was unable to ID a pale spot in front of the eye.  I hope someone else can find the bird and help my verify or modify my ID.
Thanks, Carol

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