On this note, I saw Ring billed gulls mobbing a mature Bald eagle at the intersection of Rt 13 & 21st St. in Newark(Licking County) today not too far from where the Eurasian widgeon was spotted a little while back. Manon VanSchoyck www.ohionature.org -----Original Message----- From: Ohio birds [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Steve Cagan Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 9:07 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [Ohio-birds] Red-tailed Hawk mobbed in Cleveland Heights... ...not by crows, Blue Jays, ravens, blackbirds, or all the birds we expect to do this, but by Ring-billed Gulls. I had seen this before, but at the lakefront. This time it was in the Severance shopping center in Cleveland Heights. I saw a couple of gulls flying very fast and vocalizing a lot along the internal road there, quite near me. Almost fell off the bike when I realized the third bird, leading them--the quiet one--wasn't a gull, but a hawk, and it wasn't leading them, but being chased. A juvenile Red-Tailed Hawk, or sub-adult anyway... Best wishes, Steve Cagan Cleveland Heights -------------------------------------------- Steve Cagan, photographer [log in to unmask] www.stevecagan.com www.pbase.com/stevecagan 216-932-2753 (USA) ______________________________________________________________________ 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] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]