Carol, thank you for the smile you gave me this morning when I read your message. I couldn't convince a newspaper photographer once that the picture they had in the paper listed as a pelican was actually a great blue heron.. : ) Regarding the Putnam Landing eagle(s) I last saw one eagle on the Muskingum River in the South Zanesville area on Jan. 4th. My brother and sister-in-law saw one again in the same area (where there is a somewhat new bridge which is located on a bypass like road to get you from Rt. 22 over to Rt 60) on Sat. Jan. 27th. If you know what the name of that bridge is I would appreciate knowing what to call it. Mapquest has it down as the 555 bridge. I have never figured out where Putnam's Landing is and wonder if it might be close by this particular bridge. Lynda Andrews Wildlife Biologist Wayne National Forest 740/753-0550 voice 740/753-0118 fax "A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy" ... John Sawhill Carol Lyle <[log in to unmask] R.COM> To Sent by: Ohio [log in to unmask] birds cc <OHIO-BIRDS@LISTS ERV.MUOHIO.EDU> Subject [Ohio-birds] Zanesville grebe 02/10/2007 02:01 PM Please respond to Carol Lyle <[log in to unmask] R.COM> 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 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]