Being on vacation this week, I was working outside at home this morning.
Not only did it look like winter with the overcast, gray sky, but it
sounded like winter as well with the chatter of newly arrived Dark-eyed
Juncos.

When I called my mom to tell her I was hearing some, she looked out her
window just then to see her first of fall as well in Canal Fulton, Stark
County.

Three Chimney Swifts were still circling over my house this evening.
Every night this week there have been two to four seen.

And a Red-breasted Nuthatch, first heard across the street yesterday,
has discovered my bird feeders.  It has already found a spot in the
cherry tree where a limb broke off long ago, where a sunflower seed can
be strategically placed for chiselling.

Kathy Mock
Barberton, OH
Summit Co.

"Did St. Francis preach to the birds?  Whatever for?  If he really liked
birds he would have done better to preach to the cats." -- Rebecca West

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