Thought you readers might find this interesting: I just got back from a trip to Ontario -- stayed on a remote island near Manitoulin Island.. Anyway, for a couple days there was a Merlin hanging around our part of the island. I watched it swoop out of the trees over the water a couple times then saw it turn on a dime and nail a dragonfly. Pretty cool to watch. No unusual birds on trip -- all pretty typical for that area: Sandhill Cranes, Ospreys, Ruby Throats, Golden Crowned Kinglets, warblers (Blackthroated Blue, Black & White, etc.), Loons, Ravens. Paul Graham Worthington ______________________________________________________________________ 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]