I pass along on behalf of veteran observer Carole Babyak, who is not a subscriber to the list, the following. Bill Whan Columbus I am not a subscriber to Ohio Birdsbut I do look at it frequently. Wanted to pass on some info about NE Ohio birds: Yesterday Sat. Nov 17, 2007 a group was at Mosquito Lake looking at the N end (no hunting there yesterday) when I saw a female Bald Eagle leave her perch on an island - plunge into the water- couldn't see what she got - but she flew away carrying a greyish object to her perch to eat it. Feathers flew so we knew it wasn't a fish. Jeff had a scope and the prey looked like an immature Herring Gull (head had a long bill). No gulls flew off or were around this gull when the Eagle attacked. I think her mate, a smaller Eagle, was on the island near by. I monitor the eagles' nest at Meander Reservoir and have noticed the Gulls do have a different alarm call when eagles are around. When I hear that I search for eagles in the sky.....and always find them. Tree Sparrows were also at Mosquito Lake area as well as 38 Swans flying east. And 100s of Bonaparte's Gulls who were all over the N end of the lake (really hard to count or estimate!) as well as a small group of Snow Buntings at the N end. Few Ring-billed Gulls??? Also last week a woman found a Long-eared Owl on the sidewalk by the Stambaugh Bldg in Youngstown - site of Peregrine nest. It was ID'd by Ray Novotny, Mill Creek Park naturalist. The verdict is it crashed into the window. However the big glass windows reflecting sky are on a building further east. The Stambaugh Bldg is a vintage building (slated for apt./condominium complex- so will be preserved) and has very small-- dirty at that--windows! Peregrines are intolerant of other predatory birds, in fact she's even routed Turkey Vultures out of her air space! All in Youngstown are convinced of the hitting window scenario but I'd like to keep the verdict open! Friday Nov 16th in Niles along the Mosquito Creek I had 3 groups of calling Tundra Swans following after each other, totaling 152; they were flying East- SE. (An old National Geographic - with Ben Franklin on the cover- had an article about swan researchers in VA. They radio tagged swans who left Chesapeake Bay in the late afternoon and settled on Mosquito Lake about sunrise to spend the day, then flew directly west before flying North.) very interesting! Carole Babyak [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]