Hi,

(links to pictures from all these sighting are listed below)

Thanks to suggestions from a few listmembers, the dead barred owl I found is
now in the possession of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.  And
thanks *also* to a few listmembers, I got to see my first Barred Owl live
and healthy in the wild at Elywood Park in Lorain; in fact, I revisited this
morning and found *two* of them cozied up together in the nest.  My thanks
to all of you (you know who you are!).

After Elywood, I stopped over at Sandy Ridge where I gave up on the Bald
Eagles in the wetland area (where I saw one a few days ago and several times
before).  But from the parking lot, I spotted one soaring high overhead.
(Not the most amazing BE photo, but a sighting, anyway).

And then, from the car, a life-bird for me, a Kestrel who launched just as I
snapped the picture making for a dramatic (if slightly blurry) shot.
Beautiful bird!

Finally (though first chronologically), yesterday at Burke Lakefront Airport
I found what I thought was partially leucistic/albino Canada Goose, but the
folks at Whatbird.com ID'd it as a Canada/Snow hybrid.

http://mansfield.osu.edu/faculty/ncomet/leucisticgoose.JPG
http://mansfield.osu.edu/faculty/ncomet/2BarredOwls2.bmp
http://mansfield.osu.edu/faculty/ncomet/BaldEagleFlyby.bmp
http://mansfield.osu.edu/faculty/ncomet/Kestrel.bmp

Best wishes,
Noah

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