Tammie and I had very good looks at a Northern Shrike at Indian Creek today. Details are included below. Bill Stanley Williamsburg Ohio Indian Creek Wildlife Area--Greentree Marsh, Brown, US-OH Feb 18, 2012 8:45 AM - 11:00 AM Protocol: Traveling 5.4 mile(s) 32 species Canada Goose 50 Mallard 12 Hooded Merganser 1 Turkey Vulture 8 Bald Eagle 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Killdeer 2 Rock Pigeon 8 Mourning Dove 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Northern Shrike 1 Northern Shrike first seen as Tammie and I were walking North on the dike at the west side of the impoundment I noticed a grey bird sitting at the top of a shrub next to the parking lot (39°10'54.99"N, 83°53'27.75"W) we looked at the bird and saw that it was a shrike. As we moved closer the bird moved to the top of a large tree boarding Campell Rd. At this time we put a scope on the bird and could see that it was in fact a shrike. The back and head were light grey with a thin black mask through the eye. The belly was white and at this time I could not see any barring. The bill appeared to be large and we thought we might have made out a downward hook on the end. Wings and tail were black. The bird then flew east over Greentree Marsh. Tammie and I drove to the parking lot on the East side of the marsh and started to walk around the ponds. The NSHR was low in shrub along the first pond. When it saw us the bird flew to the top of a very tall tree on the far side of the pond and at the intersection of the dike separating the two ponds. Tammie watched the bird and I took the scope and went to the field on the east side of where the shrike was located. With the scope and very good light I could see that the black mask on the bird was thin and only though the lower half of the eye. A thin white line was over just the eye. The feathers above the bill were white and the bill had a substantial downward hook at the end. There was very faint barring on the white belly. Other than when we saw the bird by the parking lot and the pond the bird was always high in the top of trees. The bird frequently bobbed its tail. When the bird flew it was always very direct. I managed to get a poor, but identifiable digiscope photograph in which the large area of white on the wing is evident as well and the white above the tail. Blue Jay 15 American Crow 10 Carolina Chickadee 8 Tufted Titmouse 6 Carolina Wren 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Eastern Bluebird 8 American Robin 4 Northern Mockingbird 3 European Starling 10 Eastern Towhee 3 Song Sparrow 10 Dark-eyed Junco 12 Northern Cardinal 10 Red-winged Blackbird 12 Common Grackle 2 American Goldfinch 5 House Sparrow 3 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]