17 Holmes County area birders were at Conneaut on Friday, including many with lots of experience over the last 20 years. Four of us stayed overnite and a total of 15 or so were at the hawk-watch site on Saturday. Four of our own records were broken on Friday. We have never seen so many falcons or Broad-wings on a spring watch. Ripley, N.Y. also set their all-time record on Friday for Broad-winged Hawks. It was the best day any of us have had for watching raptors in Ohio. Saturday totals were not complete yet - the day was slow in comparison to Friday, although a very cooperative immature Golden Eagle was a special treat. Here are the numbers for Friday. ** indicates new spring record or *tied the old one for us (our local records, not Ohio records). Turkey Vulture 87 Osprey 31 Bald Eagle 3 N. Harrier 31 Sharp-shinned 590** Cooper's 6 N. Goshawk 2* Red-shouldered 2 Broad-winged 5687** Red-tailed 40 Swainson's 2* Rough-legged 4 American Kestrel 97 Merlin 12** Peregrine Falcon 9** Bruce Bruce Glick [log in to unmask] Millersburg, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]