Fellow birders, This weekend, while looking for early migrants, Vicki Derr and I spotted what we believe was TWO Golden Eagles drifting northward over our 60 acre "yard". 99 out of 100 times when you see a large bird floating above you, it turns out to be a Turkey Vulture. However, it is well known that all the TV's in Ohio were in Hinkley this past weekend, eating dead pancakes. Besides, after thirty plus years of birding we can both tell an eagle from a Turkey vulture. That being said, the question quickly became "which eagle is that, Golden or Bald?" We had about five minutes of very good looks at these birds, and both of us are fairly certain that they were not immature bald eagles, but really two Golden Eagles. Actually, we are very certain. Happened to have the opportunity to talk to Jim Fry about this, and he noted that they were being seen in Migration at this time, so it could be possible. Let me repeat. They were not turkey vultures. They were far, far too big to be any hawk. I have seen Golden Eagle once before over this farm, two years ago, so it's not unprecedented, just rare. After all, that's what rare birds are, rare. I've been wrong before. Just ask me about my latest relationship. But, I don't think I'm wrong here. Would love to hear other opinions about this. Just be nice. joe faulkner somerset, ohio perry county Clouse lake report This morning Clouse lake had 1 Red Breasted merganser male 12 Green winged teals 2 Gadwalls 4 Mallards 8 Lesser Scaup 10 Ring necked ducks 8 American wigeons 1 coot 10 Canadian Geese 1 Great blue heron ______________________________________________________________________ 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]