Hi birders, I'm home from Massachusetts visiting my family in the Fairborn area for the holidays. Every time I come home, I drag my brother Greg out for some birding. He can usually call up a good bird or two, and today was no exception. We birded the Huffman Prairie Flying Field and Eastwood Lake areas (along the edge of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near the Montgomery/Greene county border). Our highlights were a beautiful Merlin, putting on a good show, and a totally unexpected yellow PALM WARBLER foraging the edge of a sunlit field with a mixed-species flock of Sparrows and Bluebirds. My eBird checklist is here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S9417230 And pictures of a few of these birds, including the resident pair of Bald Eagles at Eastwood Lake, can be seen on my Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/campephilus1/ For precise directions to any of these birds, or more info, contact-me off list. Great winter birding! Tim Spahr Fairborn (for a few days) [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]