Emil Bacik and I visited familiar spots within CVNP this morning. Highlights included 8 Purple Finches along the Oak Hill entrance road and a male Wood Duck on the river at Bath Rd. There were 30 Purples in the Oak Hill area on 12/27. Rough-legged Hawks did not dissappoint at The Wilds, yesterday, for the annual OOS shebang. Seemed every stop turned up an array of 'Legs," - in a surprising 3:1 dark to light color morph ratio. Our group alone tallied 25 birds, though harriers were outrageously scarce (2 birds) in contrast. A cooperative Northern Shrike was viewed along Prouty Rd., after lunch, and a Short-eared Owl heard barking across from the visitors' center in the early AM. Last Sat., a fem. Yellow-bellied Spasucker was spied at The Jesuit Retreat Home in Parma Last but not least, a wayward Common Loon was viewed over Parma on 1/7...very strange, this bird headed fairly low over my yard heading southeast in the early afternoon. Quite late and out-of-place. Good birding - Gabe Leidy Cleveland ______________________________________________________________________ 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]