Today was beautiful at Big Island - Sunny the majority of the afternoon with light winds (The weatherpersons this morning were originally predicting moderate rain showers all afternoon, especially where we were birding - WRONG!!!:} Our group was able to bird Big Island for approximately 4 hours. Waterfowl were not overly abundant, but there was a decent variety: Mallard Blue Wing Teal Shovelers Coot Pied Billed Grebes Horned Grebes Northern Pintail Lesser Scaup Ring-Necked Ducks Canada Geese Green Wing Teal Raptors included: Northern Harriers American Kestrels Red-Tail Hawks Rough-Legged Hawk (Dark Morph) Bald Eagle - 13 (5 Adult, 8 juvenile) Bald Eagle Nest - With nesting Bald Eagles Turkey Vultures Other Birds: Eastern Meadowlarks Horned Larks Tree Sparrows Song Sparrows Red-wing Blackbirds Great Blue Herons Rick Stelzer ______________________________________________________________________ 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]