My drive home from Columbus today was cold and blustery, but was enlivened by 7 American Kestrels. Two were hovering and a third was flying over the median of southbound I-71, between Columbus and the SR 68 exit (Wilmington). Two were seen along SR 68, in Clinton County south of Wilmington, and two more were perched on SR 131 in Clermont County, between Bethel and Felicity. With the two I saw breeding on Wed, that's 9 kestrels in 5 days. Two Red-tailed Hawks were also observed on the same stretch of I-71, one perched in a tree along the road, and the other swooping over the median strip, low enough to have been clipped by a semi-truck if one had been passing. While I held my breath, the swooping hawk made a sharp correction in time to lift up out of harm's way. ~Kathi Hutton Felicity, Clermont County http://katdocsworld.blogspot.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]