I had another interesting day afield in eastern Mahoning Co. today.  Highlight was a male white-winged crossbill at Pine L.  It was in a conifer.  There actually aren't any great number of pines around Pine L.  Both this reservoir and Evans L. were 99% frozen, but around the 1% liquid were numerous waterbirds.  At Evans L: Canada geese, redhead, 2 ring-necked ducks, 3 greater scaup, 8 hooded mergansers, 1500 ring-billed gulls, and 100 herring gulls.  At Pine L: Canada geese, mallards, 7 Am. wigeon, 2 canvasbacks, 3 redheads, 35 ring-necked ducks, 3 lesser scaup, 15 hooded mergansers, bald eagle, and ring-billed gulls.  In various places in Mahoning Co. today I saw sharp-shinned hawk, Cooper's hawks, red-tailed hawks, red-shouldered hawks, n. harrier, and Am. kestrel.  Also 3 widely spaced n. mockingbirds.  Later, Craig




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