today April 11th reed and i saw a turkey vulture along hwy 11 between the seed road turn offs as well while baning at gillies lake we had a sharp shinned hawk hit the net twice but was not captyred and Rick caldwell reports having a pair of merlins at his place on dawson point. Redpoll numbers appear to be thinning out bit are still very numerous toady we banded over 70 in just over an hour