Today between 1 and 2 pm there was an adult osprey keeping a watchful eye on the upper of the two ponds by Wade Chapel, in a snag adjacent to the spot where the brook enters the pond. It first perched directly above me (in my truck as a blind) and I was only aware of it because I saw it's shadow on the ground followed by some fluff falling from the tree (a sycamore). I got out to get a look and it flew around the pond several times and finally lit on the far side...I pass thru Lakeview quite frequently and have never before seen an osprey there, and similarly, at North Chagrin I saw one earlier this summer, another first. http://www.pbase.com/image/128223449 Denny McDonnell Euclid ______________________________________________________________________ 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]