I led a Lake Metroparks' Bird Walk today at Lake Erie Bluffs from 8-10am. There was a good bit of raptor movement. Walking the main loop off Lane Road we had a MERLIN stay with us for an hour. It repeatedly perched in the largest dead trees between the trail and the lake. It ate a bird and then continued to hunt more birds over the field. At one point it battled an American Kestrel. A Cooper's and Sharp-shinned passed by. Additionally, there was never a point when we could not see Bald Eagles. We counted 6 individual eagles, but there was likely much more. Andy ______________________________________________________________________ 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]