I had a couple good birds in my North Perry yard, white-winged crossbill and long-eared owl. The white-winged crossbill showed up this morning with a group of house finches. It dropped down to the feeders for about 5 seconds before being scared off by a cardinal. It flew up into the white pines and never came back down. It never reappeared. It was a female plumaged bird. This afternoon I was alerted to the long-eared owl by a group of crows that were harassing it. Originally there were also a number of chickadees in the area. The crows chased the bird from conifer to conifer. I viewed it from a distance and the bird kept trying to get into the densest part of the trees. I left the bird go and did even attempt to get any photos because the crows were harassing it so much. About an hour later I went out and heard no crows and saw no sign of the owl. John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]