Unfortunately, I did not get to see this bird, but my older brother (who is a wildlife biologist) flushed a barn owl out of some tall grass in northern Ross County, along Deer Creek. This happened on Dec. 26th. I thought the readers here would find that interesting, and I would be interested in knowing if others have had similar experiences with barn owls. My brother has encountered them a couple other times over the years roosting/resting in tall grass, reeds, etc. I had never heard of these birds doing that. My big thrill this frigid weekend was watching a male Yellow Bellied Sapsucker on my suet feeders yesterday (Jan. 2) and seeing a Carolina Wren for the first time in weeks on my peanut feeder. Paul Graham Worthington, Franklin Co. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]