I took a walk along the Canal in the Ohio and Erie Canal Res. today around noon partly because of the recent post here about the bald eagles. I stood on the bike path next to the Canal and watched a peregrine falcon circle above the Visitor's Center along with a number of gulls with my binoculars. The falcon made three short dives at gulls. The falcon would gain altitude above the gulls, tilt down, bring its wings close to its body and shoot towards a gull. Maybe they were practice dives? Maybe the gulls were bothering the falcon and it wanted to chase the gulls off? While driving out of the parking lot an adult bald eagle flew up out of the trees near the little loop road next to the mountain bike trail. I pulled into the loop road and jumped out of my car to watch it. The eagle soared low and slow above for a few minutes. A walker was on the path next to the road and also watched the bird watch us. Nice! ______________________________________________________________________ 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]