As I was leaving the Manchester Road Trailhead in Akron today, I spotted a raptor atop a pole eating and snapped photos--a very nice Merlin! I have no idea if it is normally in that area, but if it is finding food as it did today, it could stick. I will be adding photos to my eBird checklist in a bit. I was in the parking lot when I spotted it, best of my recollection on a pole back behind the two arches where the water passes through. Susan Carpenter ______________________________________________________________________ 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]