On Saturday, 03/15/08, I started the day at Mohican State Park at the second house past the fire tower at about 8:30 am. At 9:00 am, the four female plumaged Evening Grosbeaks came into the large trees in the backyard and came down to the feeders behind the house. When I first arrived, I heard Evening Grosbeak calls in the woods to the left of this house when facing the back yard. In addition to the Evening Grosbeaks, there were the usual late winter-early spring feeder birds in the area including a single red-breasted Nuthatch. After thoroughly enjoying the Evening Grosbeaks, I headed east to the Walnut Creek and Trail area to try for the Hoary Redpoll. I arrived at the Levi Yoder's home near Trail, Holmes County ((Delorme p. 51 D5) at about 10:30 am, having some difficulty finding TR 415 off of 515. Feeder activity was very slow, and no redpolls appeared, but there was a Chipping Sparrow changing into breeding plumage. I stayed until about 12:30 or 12:45 pm, when I needed to leave for a break. When I returned at about 1:30 pm, the Amish lady told me that the flock of redpolls showed up shortly after I left and that they had just left the feeder. I set up my scope behind the barn and found a group of 8 redpolls in the top of a tree behind the house. They were preening and feeding on the buds. I did find the Hoary Redpoll (HORE) in this group. The HORE was more lightly streaked on the sides than the Common Redpolls and had very little to no streaking on the under tail coverts, and appeared to be overall somewhat lighter in color or more "frosty" than the Common Redpolls. Significantly, it had the short, small bill and the "smushed in" face, unlike the Common Redpolls that it was with. I studied this flock for about 15 minutes through my telescope, sometimes at 60X, during which time the redpolls flew to another nearby tree-top. Eventually they took off and flew toward Trail along with more finches that appeared to be American Goldfinches and perhaps more redpolls that were not visible to me. I left the Yoder home at about 2:00 pm. I found the location near New Bedford in Coshocton County at 31412 TR 227, where the Harris's Sparrow has been reported. It was also not that easy to find this location and the dirt/gravel roads in this area were quite muddy. Unfortunately, I chose my route with the most dirt/muddy roads, but returned to New Bedford on more black topped roads. I stayed in the area for about 45 minutes scanning/searching the ravine and the yard with blue spruce trees area from the roadside, but did not find the Harris's Sparrow. Jay Jay G. Lehman Cincinnati, OH [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]