Hi, Kirtland has a lot of habitat that very much resembles that of western Pennsylvania. Old growth forests, covering hills and ravines. Still I was surprised when I had an adult Northern Goshawk fly right in front of my car, driving on the 306 just south of Gildersleeve Mountain, toward Chester. Adults are unmistakable with their dark gray upper parts and light gray underparts. (I saw the wing linings and breast) I have always been struck by how fast and powerful a Goshawk is in flight. In fact I would say they are about the fastest thing I have seen in level flight, and that is especially impressive going through the deep woods. This is not the first time I've seen Goshawk in the summer in Kirtland. eSteve Cagan and I had one in Stebbin's Gulch in June 2004, and there was another at Holden in late June 2015. They are well known nesters in Warren Co. Pennsylvania which is just 100 miles east, and I have long suspected there may be a nesting in this area as the habitat is very much the same. As if that was not enough, this morning my friend Frank Buck had White-winged Crossbills in his yard which in the area just north of Penitentiary Glen. Said he heard them first, then spotted them. Again not unprecedented to have Crossbills in northern Ohio in the summertime, but certainly noteworthy. Haans <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> ______________________________________________________________________ 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]