A leg-banded, adult Red-shouldered hawk has been present the last two days in backyards and a two-acre woodlot on Marshall Road in Centerville. The bird first showed up Christmas morning to eat some ground chuck my mother threw out for the crows. It ate on the ground for a while before taking a tennis ball-sized piece of chuck up into a maple in the wood lot behind the house and methodically gobbling it down. Blue Jays, Cardinals, American Crows, Carolina Chickadees and House Finches were visibly and audibly agitated by the buteo's presence, but never got up the nerve to mob it. It was back again this a.m. hoping for more free eats. Picture here: *http://tinyurl.com/7sfcmc* ** Paul Dubuc Nanuet, NY for the moment Dayton, OH for the duration at sign beween pauldubuc and gmail dot com ______________________________________________________________________ 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]