Green Lawn Cem
11/18/07 mid - late afternoon
I guess winter is now here----->

It appears the MERLIN has returned.
It, or one that looks just like, was perched in one of its favorite spots
at the top of a branch of a dead tree in Section 57, south of the pit,
when I arrived about 2-3.
Otherwise, the birds were mostly very active and moving rapidly about in
small groups or singly. Thus, with a lot of leaves still on the trees,
it was hard to get good looks at many of the small things, so I don't
know what I might have missed. However, here are the others I remember.
In some cases numbers are mentioned.

Merlin
Mourning Dove  xx
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 (I usually manage to see 2 or 3. they seem
to like the Black Walnut on the right, about 3/4 of the way in to the
mausoleum. They were there before.)
Downy Woodpecker
Blue Jay
Carolina Chickadee (are recovering nicely after what seemed to be a total
wipe-out several years ago)
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 at least. (I saw them in various locations, but
they do move about rapidly.)
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper - 1
Am. Robin ( most flocks were small, high in the trees and seldom stayed
in one place for very long)
Cedar Waxwing (a small group wandering about)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
N. Cardinal
Chipping Sparrow - several (they were usually rather hidden in the grass.
I did not recognize any field sparrows.)
      (Possibly, there might have been tree sparrows, but I was not able
to get good IDs (because of their being lost in the grass).
White-throated sparrow (only a few
D.E. Junco (the most numerous)
House Finch
Pine Siskin (brief looks, as mentioned above, but I was sure at least 1
or 2. There might have been more moving with the goldfinches.)
Am. Goldfinch

Rich
Richard Cressman
Columbus OH
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