Saturday 10/13 Ken and Jenny Parsons and  took our kayaks down the lower 
Mohican River to were it joins the Kokosing River to form the beginning of 
the Walhonding River. As we drove to drop off our pick up car we observed 
3 juvenile bald eagles circeling over the Walhonding River above the 
Mohican dam.
1 coopers hawk &
2 sharpshin hawks hunting fields. All in Coshocton County.

Earlier this year we have observed many eagles along the lower Mohican 
river because of very light use. But now that the boating season is over 
and there is no longer heavy trafic on the Walhonding and Kokosing Rivers 
the eagles have spread out from the Mohican to these rivers.

We only saw 3 eagles 1 adult and 2 juvenile on the way down the Mohican. 
All were soaring fairly high. 

We did get some very good looks at several juvenile red tail hawks. One in 
particular circled above us for several minutes with the sun back lighting 
his feathers. 

We only saw 1 great blue heron. We usualy see so many that we do not count 
them.

There were belted king fishers every where with one bird teasing us by 
waiting until we got very close then flying down stream to pearch in a 
tree. He did this for about two miles. 

The small birds were every where but I am not very good at identifying 
them by sight or sound. I do not take a field book along because it is not 
a good idea to be reading a book on a fast moving river. On top of that my 
water proof bino's were dropped and I get double vision now. 

We hope to get in a couple more trips down the river before we have to 
switch to using our cars for raptor watching.

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