On our eSite run at Cowan Lake today, Larry Gara and I had another Bald Eagle. This bird appeared to be at least two years old. It matched up well with Wheeler's "Basic/subadult II (moderately marked type." This is NOT the bird I found here last week. That bird was almost adult with lots of white on the head and tail. The lake is now up to normal level with water moving over the spillway, though the lake is still about 80% iced. The remaining ice should go pretty quickly. All the roads are clear and drivable by ordinary vehicles. Cheers, Bob ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:32 PM Subject: eBird Report - Cowan Lake , 3/9/10 To: [log in to unmask] Location: Cowan Lake Observation date: 3/9/10 Notes: 63F, winds: calm, sky: ovc, water: 20% open, lake level: +0.5', boats: 0 Number of species: 19 Canada Goose 69 Mallard 41 Northern Pintail 1 Green-winged Teal 9 Redhead 4 Ring-necked Duck 103 Lesser Scaup 6 Bufflehead 8 Hooded Merganser 7 Common Merganser 2 Ruddy Duck 8 Great Blue Heron 9 Turkey Vulture 10 Bald Eagle 1 Matches up well with Wheeler's "Basic/subadult II (moderately marked type" Red-tailed Hawk 1 Bonaparte's Gull 2 Ring-billed Gull 156 Herring Gull 2 American Crow 1 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) -- Robert D Powell Congress Farm Research Institute Wilmington, OH, USA [log in to unmask] http://rdp1710.wordpress.com Nulla dies sine aves ______________________________________________________________________ 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]