Sorry for the late post, but my computer would not let me on the internet (?). Over the last 3 days, Shaune Skinner, Joan Frederick, and I have seen a total of 26 Bald Eagles. During Sunday's Ottawa NWR auto tour (7-8 miles N of Oak Harbor between SR 2 and Lake Erie), we counted 14 (mix of adults and juveniles). We witnessed one of the adults sitting atop a tree in the sunlight spreading his/her wings like a vulture does. Anybody ever seen this ? Yesterday, we saw an additional 1 adult at Sheldon's Marsh (between Sandusky and Huron near Lake Erie shore), then 8 juveniles at Killdeer Plains and 3 adults at Big Island Wildlife Areas. Killdeer is approx. 6-7 miles west of US 23 taking SR 294 thru Harpster, and Big Island is approx. 5-6 miles east of La Rue along La Rue-Prospect Road. The eight eagles at Killdeer were all sitting together in 2 adjacent trees on the north side of the large wetland along CH 68 (park at lot J). Other birds at these areas were as follows: Sheldon Marsh: Sharp-Shinned Hawk - 1 Great Blue Heron - 2 Red-Bellied Woodpecker - 1 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Yellow-Rumped Warbler - 4 American Goldfinch - 1 Carolina Wren - 1 Chickadee - 1 Northern Cardinal - 10 Blue Jay - 4 American Robin - 105 Red-Winged Blackbird - 25 White-Breasted Nuthatch - 3 Dark-Eyed Junco - 2 Ring-Billed Gull - many Mallard - 4 Canada Goose - 1 Killdeer Plains: Red-Tailed Hawk 5 American Kestrel - 1 Northern Harrier - 2 Northern Flicker - 9 Red-Headed Woodpecker - 5 Great Blue Heron - 4 Northern Shoveler - 1 American Coot - 200 Mallard - 150 Tundra Swan - 30 Canvasback - 1 Gadwall - 1 Tree Sparrow - 2 Northern Cardinal - 1 Blue Jay - 5 American Crow - 2 Mourning Dove - 1 Pigeon - 1 Horned Lark - 4 Brown-Headed Cowbird - 150 Chickadee - 1 Big Island: Northern Harrier - 1 American Kestrel - 1 Red-Tailed Hawk - 1 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]