I have become a recent subscriber to the listserv, so recent in fact, that I'm a little late in discovering how to submit a message of a sighting this past weekend. I was exploring Big Island Wildlife Area west of Marion on Saturday, January 8, looking for SE owls & harriers. In walking T-84, I found both: 2 harriers flying over the fields surrounding the pond for much of the afternoon and 2 SE owls deep to the tree line east of the road about 4:00 (distant views only) What excited me most was the shrike in the small trees just south of the parking lot on the west side T-84. It remained in the area all afternoon and was easily viewed as I walked from the lot, south, just 30 feet from the road's edge across from the pond. Nina Harfmann ______________________________________________________________________ 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]