A chilly but at least partly sunny Christmas outing. My Christmas present for the day was 2 adult Bald Eagles flying right over my head at Rock Bridge--always a treat. They headed north.

Clear Creek was v quiet, not much around at all: Red-tailed Hawk hunting, W-Br Nuthatch, E Towhee. Lake Logan not v exciting either: 40-50 Hooded Mergs, a few Ring-billed Bulls, 4 Great Blue Herons, a female Belted Kingfisher.

Rock Bridge was the liveliest spot with good sparrows along the trail off the parking lot: White-crowned, one Lincoln's, Song (the most numerous of course), Tree, Field. I actually didn't see any White-throated but was pretty sure I heard them. There was small group of E Bluebirds, one Mockingbird, Carolina Wrens, Red-winged Blackbirds (mostly females). Only woodpeckers were N Flickers & Red-bellied. As many as a 100 Am Crows in the first corn-stubble field at the turn-off from Rt 33, I guess some kind of corvid convention. And the usuals: cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, robins.

Peggy Wang
Lancaster, OH

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