After hiking around the lake at Spring Valley Wildlife Area, I spotted a mature Bald Eagle from the lower parking lot at 2pm today. It hung around for just over an hour flying around the lake and into and out of the cove to right of the parking lot where it perched in the tall Sycamores resting and preening. Fortunately I was able to share this sighting with more than a dozen other people including a wildlife officer. Other bird sightings at the lake included a flock of 200 American Coots, a Pied Billed Grebe, Red Tailed Hawks and a female Pileated Woodpecker carving out a nest. Wild Turkey were calling from the woods just across the creek at the lower parking lot as well, we only heard them, did not see them. Nearby on Sears Rd. Eastern Meadowlarks were also spotted. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]