I'm posting for the first time since my hard drive was replaced.  Let's see if it works!

First of the season today:

Pine siskins (three, at thistle sock)
Northern mockingbird (suet feeder/suet mixed with dried berries)

I've had more tufted titmice this year than ever before.  The first few years I lived here, I had NONE.  Yesterday, I had three at one time.

And, I'm seeing all the regulars:

no. cardinal
Ca. chickadees
W-B nuthatch
downy and red-bellied woodpeckers
lots of house finches and somewhat fewer Am. goldfinches
many house sparrows
very few dark-eyed juncos

Missing - my Carolina wrens.  They nested in the neighborhood last summer, and have always attended my suet feeders in the fall.  I haven't seen or heard them for over a month.

I can always tell when Top Gun is in the neighborhood (my name for the female Cooper's hawk).

And what's with the mourning doves.  They seem to be increasing exponentially!  I had almost forty in my yard at one time yesterday.

Now I'd love to have a purple finch, but I'm not expecting one.  It would be a new yard bird.

Happy window birding,
Margaret Bowman
Newark, OH

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