Bill Kinkead,Jason Simonis and myself headed to N,W. Ohio from Columbus this morning. Our first stop was Wooodlawn Cemetary in Toledo where we birded for about 4 hours. We found the Common Redpolls as reported by Doreen Linzell earlier this morning feeding in the top halves of Alder trees along the pond but they quickly moved on and could not be refound. We also located the 2 Merlins. At oak Openings at the Buhler center birdfeeders on Girdham we saw 2 Pine Siskins and 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch and checked the Wabash bikepath west of Girdham Rd in the conifers on both sides of the path for the Red Crossbills but had no luck.. Just east of Swan Creek along Rt. 20A on the north side of the road we entered the small Swan Creek Cemetary where we fairly quickly found 3 White-winged Crossbills. Along the south side of Poe Rd. east of Bowling Green at the golf course pond located a Cackling Goose among a quite large flock of Canada Geese. We searched for the Snowy Owl that has been seen for awhile west of Cygnet but could only find 2 Short-eared Owls along Liberty Hi Rd. KEN SHEPHERD ______________________________________________________________________ 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]