Saturday 10/13 Ken and Jenny Parsons and took our kayaks down the lower Mohican River to were it joins the Kokosing River to form the beginning of the Walhonding River. As we drove to drop off our pick up car we observed 3 juvenile bald eagles circeling over the Walhonding River above the Mohican dam. 1 coopers hawk & 2 sharpshin hawks hunting fields. All in Coshocton County. Earlier this year we have observed many eagles along the lower Mohican river because of very light use. But now that the boating season is over and there is no longer heavy trafic on the Walhonding and Kokosing Rivers the eagles have spread out from the Mohican to these rivers. We only saw 3 eagles 1 adult and 2 juvenile on the way down the Mohican. All were soaring fairly high. We did get some very good looks at several juvenile red tail hawks. One in particular circled above us for several minutes with the sun back lighting his feathers. We only saw 1 great blue heron. We usualy see so many that we do not count them. There were belted king fishers every where with one bird teasing us by waiting until we got very close then flying down stream to pearch in a tree. He did this for about two miles. The small birds were every where but I am not very good at identifying them by sight or sound. I do not take a field book along because it is not a good idea to be reading a book on a fast moving river. On top of that my water proof bino's were dropped and I get double vision now. We hope to get in a couple more trips down the river before we have to switch to using our cars for raptor watching. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]