Spent an amazing couple of chilly windy days in NW Ohio. Highlights included seeing an immature Golden eagle just south and west from the intersection of SR 2 and SR 579 in Ottawa county - the bird was missing a tail feather. Views were distant but they were enough. About an hour and a half later, I spotted the same exact bird flying about 100 feet over the old ONWR center. The eagle floated around at low level and provided excellent extended looks. Other highlights at ONWR were a single Sandhill crane flyover and 7 Forster's terns. Perhaps the most amazing spectacle of the trip was seeing Lesser scaup staging right off of Maumee Bay State Park - there were tens of thousands of them. This extended from Maumee clear over to Crane Creek. The estuary at Crane Creek alone probably held 4,000 - 5,000 scaup. There were some Greater scaup mixed in but they were few and far between. There were many other excellent birds -but these were the highlights in my opinion. Glen Crippen Burr Oak Lake ______________________________________________________________________ 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]