The Mountwood Bird Club braved the cold weather today to check the birds on what we call the Duck Route - along the Muskingum River from Marietta, OH to about 5 miles above Lowell, OH. Those along were Barb Hohman, Eula Elliot, Allan Elberfeld, Pat Collins, Jon Benedetti, Gene and Jeanie Hilton, and Dick and Jeanette Esker. We had a good selection of ducks but not a lot in numbers. There were two Bald Eagles at the Devola Dam - one adult and one juvenile. Some "unusual" sightings were a pair of Red-tailed Hawks perched side-by-side, almost touching, on a limb; a nice flock of Horned Larks along with four Eastern Meadowlarks; and several flocks of Yellow-rumped Warblers. Here is the list for the day: Canada Goose Gadwal American Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Pied-billed Grebe Great Blue Heron Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Blue Jay American Crow Horned Lark Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Robin European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler Eastern Towhee American Tree Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Eastern Meadowlark House finch Pine Siskin American Goldfinch House Sparrow Dick & Jeanette Esker Wood County West Virginia [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]