Birders, Whilst getting a title for my truck at the Macedonia title bureau-- right next to the firehouse on Valley View Road - I saw what I first took to be a Cooper's Hawk flying across the road. I saw it from the back and above only, as the bird was banking in such a way I never saw the underparts. The bird was Coop sized or maybe a hair bigger, with grey back and wings. I was looking at the tail and observed that the bird had white lateral tailfeathers on both sides, and not just the outer feather-- the outer two or three feathers were white, with a narrow band of grey down the middle. I don't know if there was any banding of that grey, as I was so startled I looked back at the body of the bird and the wings for more clues. I think there was a whitish rump patch, but I am not totally sure. The overall impression was more like a meadowlark or sandpiper tail, rather than a junco tail. The wings were broad and rounded, and again the overall impression was a coop. I probably saw the bird for 2-3 seconds as it flew across the road and parking lot and into the woods. AFAIK, there aren't any raptors with white lateral tail feathers, so if any Macedonians see the bird, I'd love to know what ti really is. Bill ______________________________________________________________________ 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]