This weekend I stayed pretty close to home here in eastern Mahoning Co. doing yardwork and getting ready for a family trip to central Louisiana next week.  But the local patch was not boring.  Saturday I noticed only a few of the expected raptors overhead, with little definite migration.  The one kettle of birds I did get a little excited over turned out to be ~20 gulls (mostly herrings).  Their behavior was exactly what I would have expected from a kettle of raptors!  I've seen gulls soaring plenty of times, but not such a perfect formation as this over dry land.  This morning, I observed one of a pair of red-shouldered hawks doing it's best falcon impersonation when it dive-bombed an intruding red-tailed hawk.  I was really surprised by the pair's overall level of agressiveness.  My FOS e. phoebe was heard this morning in Coitsville Twp.  I tallied 29 song sparrows (most only heard) up in Coitsville also.  Later, Craig




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