A joint Union County Bird Club/Ohio Dominican Birding Club trip to Killdeer Plains was attended by 13 people yesterday. It was a productive day. We started at 12:30 and stayed until dusk. Highlights were: Red-shouldered Hawk: 1 young bird flew directly over our initial meeting spot at the area headquarters Rough-legged Hawk: Many individuals of both color morphs various places Great Horned Owl: Heard while visiting secondary pine grove on TH-108; seemed to be in tree line to west Barred Owl: 1 in main owl pines on CH-71; very high in tree, in southeast corner Short-eared Owl: About 3 seen at dusk while looking east from TH-108. Another group from Cincinnati reported many more (17 or 18) from the same location, also at dusk but a few minutes before us. Northern Shrike: 1 discovered at dusk while walking back to road from secondary pine grove on TH-108. Perched at very top of tall tree, and visible from TH-108. White-crowned Sparrow: 1 at feeders at Area Headquarters Eastern Meadowlark: a group of 5 seen at Sportsmen's Center; were in parking lot at first, then flew north No Snow Buntings or longspurs seen despite looking for them at Washburn Road; we saw about 10 Horned Larks there. Full eBird checklist: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21625990 Blake Mathys --------------------------------- http://blakemathys.com/ --------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]