I stopped by the cemetery around 3:30 and after poking around the
usual sections,
finally heard the red breasted nuthatches.

I saw one surprisingly vivid little bird picking around in the taxus.
He picked one
of the red berries, flew over to the maple tree with it, and then
worked on extracting the
seed. There were at least two red breasted nuthatches there, probably
three.
(In section 2.)

Also the largest number of chipping sparrows I've ever come across.
I've settled on
54 for my ebird entry, but I think  that is a modest count.  They were
just everywhere
I looked.

Inga Schidt

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