Emil Bacik and I visited familiar spots within CVNP this morning.  Highlights 
included 8 Purple Finches along the Oak Hill entrance road and a male Wood Duck 
on the river at Bath Rd.  There were 30 Purples in the Oak Hill area on 12/27.

Rough-legged Hawks did not dissappoint at The Wilds, yesterday, for the annual 
OOS shebang.  Seemed every stop turned up an array of 'Legs," - in a surprising 
3:1 dark to light color morph ratio.  Our group alone tallied 25 birds, though 
harriers were outrageously scarce (2 birds) in contrast.  A cooperative Northern 
Shrike was viewed along Prouty Rd., after lunch, and a Short-eared Owl heard 
barking across from the visitors' center in the early AM.

Last Sat., a fem. Yellow-bellied Spasucker was spied at The Jesuit Retreat Home 
in Parma

Last but not least, a wayward Common Loon was viewed over Parma on 1/7...very 
strange, this bird headed fairly low over my yard heading southeast in the early 
afternoon.  Quite late and out-of-place.

Good birding -
Gabe Leidy
Cleveland




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