Hi everyone, This afternoon Beth and I took a walk in Lakeview Cemetery, on the Cleveland Heights-Cleveland-East Cleveland borders. Things were very quiet there, just a few Red-bellied Woodpeckers and Dark-eyed Juncos. Nobody feeding in the spruces or the sweet-gums. But then, about 4:30, we had a Merlin flying very low near Wade Chapel. It gave us two very quick looks. But taking into consideration the date and the place and what we did see of the bird, if‹as my biologist son-in-law says in his most scientific manner‹someone held a gun to my head and demanded an answer, I¹d say a Merlin. Then, walking past Mayfield Cemetery (just to the east of Lake View), we had good looks at a Northern Mockingbird. Best wishes, and Happy New Year to all, Steve Cagan Cuyahoga County -------------------------------------------- Steve Cagan, photographer [log in to unmask] www.stevecagan.com www.pbase.com/stevecagan www.stevecagan.blogspot.com http://socialdocumentary.net/photographer/stevecagan 216-932-2753 (USA) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]