Hi, (links to pictures from all these sighting are listed below) Thanks to suggestions from a few listmembers, the dead barred owl I found is now in the possession of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. And thanks *also* to a few listmembers, I got to see my first Barred Owl live and healthy in the wild at Elywood Park in Lorain; in fact, I revisited this morning and found *two* of them cozied up together in the nest. My thanks to all of you (you know who you are!). After Elywood, I stopped over at Sandy Ridge where I gave up on the Bald Eagles in the wetland area (where I saw one a few days ago and several times before). But from the parking lot, I spotted one soaring high overhead. (Not the most amazing BE photo, but a sighting, anyway). And then, from the car, a life-bird for me, a Kestrel who launched just as I snapped the picture making for a dramatic (if slightly blurry) shot. Beautiful bird! Finally (though first chronologically), yesterday at Burke Lakefront Airport I found what I thought was partially leucistic/albino Canada Goose, but the folks at Whatbird.com ID'd it as a Canada/Snow hybrid. http://mansfield.osu.edu/faculty/ncomet/leucisticgoose.JPG http://mansfield.osu.edu/faculty/ncomet/2BarredOwls2.bmp http://mansfield.osu.edu/faculty/ncomet/BaldEagleFlyby.bmp http://mansfield.osu.edu/faculty/ncomet/Kestrel.bmp Best wishes, Noah ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]