Some highlights from Monday going from Cuyahoga Valley National Park north to the frozen shores of Lake Erie. CVNP - various stops: RED-SHOULDERED HAWK - 1 along Quick Rd. and 1 at the maintenance yard along Riverview Rd. PURPLE FINCH - a male & female along Oak Hill Rd. near the Oak Hill Trailhead entrance driveway. PEREGRINE FALCON - male was perched in a tree on the northwest corner at the Ohio Turnpike bridge at Riverview Rd. Also a male and female bird perched on separate billboards at the I-480 bridge in Valley View. PIED-BILLED GREBE - 1 in the Cuyahoga River along Riverview Rd. east of the Columbia Run picnic area. CLEVELAND LAKEFRONT STATE PARK: AMERICAN KESTREL - 1 bird perched along I-90. NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL - 1 bird roosting in pines near visitor center parking lot. DIKE 14: PEREGRINE FALCON - 1 male bird perched on the western corner of Dike 14. E. 72ND. St./LAKE ERIE: GADWALL - 5 birds at the warm water outflow that flew upon our arrival. CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, BUFFLEHEAD, SCAUP, MALLARD, AM. BLACK DUCK & the male LONG-TAILED DUCK all gathered at the end of the breakwall in an open slip of water. GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL - 1 bird mixed in with Ring-billed Gulls & Herring Gulls just before the breakwall. Gulls were few and no white-winged gulls were seen. COOPER's HAWK - 1 juv. female chasing pigeons. PINE SISKIN - a flock of 19 birds flew over, heading west and landed in a barren tree on the inside breakwall before flying on, continuing west. EASTLAKE POWERPLANT: MALLARD, AM. BLACK DUCK, LESSER SCAUP, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, RED-BREASTED MERGANSER in decent numbers. 1 RUDDY DUCK, 2 COMMON MERGANSER (m,f) and 1 female WHITE-WINGED SCOTER. BALD EAGLE - 2 adult birds. PEREGRINE FALCON - 1 male bird that was eating something out on the ice, then flew west towards the powerplant. GREAT BLUE HERON - 1 WHISKEY ISLAND: DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT - 3 on the breakwall. MALLARDS and even fewer gulls than at E. 72nd. St. Douglas W. Vogus & Michelle Zager - Akron, Ohio. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]