Greetings one and all! Well, I was able to finally go and see the BBWD over at Bluffton. Really really easy to get good pictures. Really nice find. Thanks for reporting. :-D Something else that was "fun" was getting a local kid feeding a Canada Goose; nicknamed "Lucky"... by hand. Pics here: http://s153.photobucket.com/albums/s226/sjlarue/Birds/ On the way back, I stopped over at Killdeer in hopes of seeing the Shrike, with no luck...But I did get to see a Golden Eagle soaring over around the Pond 27 area. I think that the hunters may have scared away the geese that were of interest to birders, because there wasn't anything on the open water, except for a cluster of Coots. For those looking for Trumpeter Swans, there were 5 over on the reserve pond. Sparrows of the day were White Throated, I saw a flock of them over on th-123. There were also some Bald Eagles, Bluebirds, a couple Juncos, a male Pheasant, and Yellow Rumped Warblers at Killdeer to make things interesting. :-D Have a great rest of the weekend! Steve J. (aka SJLaRue) 30Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; 31but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:30-31 (ESV) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]