Visited The Wilds in Muskingum county today - and surrounding AEP real estate. Turned out to be fairly productive for raptors with 9 species: Rough-legged hawks - 11 Northern Harrier - 4 Bald Eagle - 1 (Coal Hill) Golden Eagle - 1 (adult bird watched from SR 284, then Zion Ridge Road), my first March record there I believe Merlin - 1 (Zion Ridge Road) Kestrel - 7 Red-tailed hawk - 3 Red-shouldered hawk - 1 (Knox Cemetery) Sharp-shinned hawk - (Zion Ridge Road) Other notable observations were a flock of approx. 77 American tree sparrows feeding (or drinking?) frantically on exposed snow melted gravel on Prouty Road. I was surprised to see that these roads were plowed/scraped. It actually made things a mess. Also - 22 Trumpeter swans (more than half were young birds) on a tucked away frozen lake in the coal haul road complex on AEP land. From Zion Ridge Road with scope looking towards the Visitor Center, I watched a Rough-legged hawk taking advantage of a recently deceased deer. I didn't know for sure that it was Rough-legged until a coyote chased it off - which chewed a big piece loose and ran off. The hawk returned and was then chased off by crows. I used Google Earth to determine I was watching all of this from approx. 6,200 - 6,400 feet away - and was able to get digiscoped videos of this. Glen Crippen Athens ______________________________________________________________________ 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]