This morning I joined up with some other birders for a Columbus Audubon trip to the Wilds. Al Parker met us there in the parking lot and we all piled into his van for an 8 hour long trip up and down country roads. At lunch he kept us well informed with his educational raptor presentation. Raptors ruled the day. Unfotunately, the golden eagle wasn't one of them. The short-eared owls declined to put in an appearance, too. Despite the weather, we were able to put together a pretty respectable list. That list is as follows. Great Blue Heron Canada Goose Mallard Gadwall Ring-Necked Duck Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Red-Tailed Hawk Rough-Legged Hawk American Kestrel Wild Turkey American Coot Ring-Billed Gull Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Long-Eared Owl Red-Bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Blue Jay American Crow Horned Lark Carolina Chickadee Golden-Crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Northern Mockingbird European Starling American Tree Sparrow Song Sparrow Dark-Eyed Junc Eastern Meadowlark House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow Al La Sala Columbus, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]