At about 11.00 this morning, as I crunched noisily over the ice and walked out into the fields with my dog, I immediately dislodged a Northern Shrike, perched nearby, low on a sapling. He flew a few feet away, landed again on a small tree and then dove into the cover of the shrubs bordering the fields. I went back three times over the day but never located the shrike again. A dozen robins eyed the sparse leftovers on the apple trees. Two red tailed hawks flew over the fields and the immature landed in the dead elm. A cooper's hawk perched by the house, having finally discovered the congestion at the new feeder in the front yard. Inga Schmidt Chagrin River Road at the Geauga/Cuyahoga Co. line ______________________________________________________________________ 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]