We had some free time today (projects going right) so we decided to go to West Manchester, Preble Co. to look for the Eurasian Collared Doves (ECDO). Well we whiffed on them but did find over a hundred Tree Sparrows, a few Mourning Doves and 1 Song Sparrow utilizing some open water on a side road north and west of town. Heading back home we observed a Red-tailed Hawk with nearly an all white tail, only about 1/3 of it was "red" so circling around to look for it off Rt. 732 and on to Morning Sun we observed a large flock of Common Grackle, possibly a thousand birds or more. We made a drive through Hueston Woods SP and observed the following: 7 Black Vulture 11 Turkey Vulture 2 Pied-billed Grebe 3 American Coot 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 20+ Mallard 13 Common Goldeneye 5 Ruddy Duck xxx Canada Goose 24 Ring-billed Gull 1 Downy woodpecker 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Carolina Chickadee 2 Dark-eyed Junco 10 Northern Cardinal 3 White-throated Sparrow xxxx Common Grackle Lori Brumbaugh Lou Gardella **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]