Hello all, Ben Warner kindly tipped me off to a spot along Wilson Rd., about 1 mile northeast of the intersection of 71 and 36/37 in Delaware. The entrance to the road is across the street from the Burger King, and there's a giant dirt mound at the site where the birds hang out. Anyway, Rough-legged Hawks are regular, and Ben reports seeing Short-eared Owls there at dusk. Today the ornithology class, Bill Heck, Jed Burtt and I went to see these birds, and saw the Rough-leggeds. Unexpectedly we saw an adult NORTHERN SHRIKE in the row of trees in the back of the field with the giant dirt mound. The ornithology class was ecstatic!!! We also saw thousands of geese migrating north this morning. Here on Ohio Wesleyan Campus, there have been 2+ Cackling Geese flying in the morning and late afternoon, along with at least one Greater White-fronted Goose, among 1500+ Canadas. 6 Tundra Swans and one male Northern Pintail were seen on Tuesday. They are always flying north or south above the Olentangy River, mostly north. Good birding, Sean P.S. Male Common Merganser landed on river last Sunday. Campus bird #206! --- Sean Williams, '11 Undergraduate of Ornithology of Dr. Jed Burtt Ohio Wesleyan University HWCC 724 Delaware, OH 43015 617-470-4094 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]