Thursday morning, Bill Kinkead,Jason Simonis and I decided to travel to a few locations in North Central Ohio. Birding has been rather slow lately except for some of the early common migrants. We ended the day with 76 species of birds with birds of note listed at the following locations: Clear Fork Lake 1 Adult Bald Eagle in tree 2 Great Egrets in NW area of Lake Pleasant Hill Lake 1 Adult Bald Eagle on nest on Pleasant Hill Rd, Mohican Gorge overlook area Pine Warbler Red-shouldered Hawk Red-breasted Nuthatch N.E. Knox County Common Raven--seen at Reed Rd. and Peeler Mill area and a short time later in a tree on Peeler Mill Rd. a short distance from Reed Rd. eating carrion. We got good looks at the various field marks and characteristics (tail, beak and soaring). Funk Bottoms 1 Adult Bald Eagle on nest and 1 immature soaring 2 Sandhill Cranes in field N. of 95. We saw 6, 2 weeks ago. Killbuck Marsh 1 Great Egret Also at different locations were Chipping Sparrows, E. Phoebes, White- crowned Sparrows 1 Mockingbird, 1 Brown Thrasher and misc. waterfowl. 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]