I found one Golden Eagle at the Wilds today. I was standing (freezing) at the Jeffrey Point Birding Station looking towards the Visitors Center and arose out of the crease of a hill was a bird that had remnants of juvenile plumage. It had faint or fading whitish patches on the wing and at the base of the tail. It's golden nape was clearly visible in perfect light. Anyhow, the bird soared around the Wilds near the ground then ascended to an amazing height with never beating a wing. I watched it through the scope for a long time before it went into a stoop somewhere that I approximate as being close to the cemetery off of Zion Ridge Road. I drove over there and could not relocate the bird. No luck on the Shrike that I saw last week either. Overall number of raptors is very low right now and more so compared to when I was there a month ago. Maybe the vole population is not having a good year and migrants that did stop there in early November have moved on. Last, most of the water is frozen at the Wilds but I did find some Ring-necked Ducks, Mallards and Canada Geese. Glen Crippen Burr Oak Lake ______________________________________________________________________ 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]