I've been birding locally at and near home in Poland Twp., NE Mahoning Co. the last 6 days.  Feeder/yard birds have included: sharp-shinned hawk, hairy woodpecker, 2 Carolina wrens, Am. tree sparrows, song sparrow, brown-headed cowbird, up to 45 house finches, purple finch, common redpolls (4 on 1/6, 10 on 1/7), and up to 28 Am. goldfinches.  A noticeable finch incursion!  In adjacent Coitsville Twp. were 2 golden-crowned kinglets and a n. mockingbird.  I'm at the Poland (Village) Library again now, from their parking lot beside Yellow Creek I saw these birds this morning: imm. Cooper's hawk; red-bellied, hairy, downy, and pileated woodpeckers (the latter drumming and calling), 2 e. bluebirds, 3 Am. robins, 4 cedar waxwings, song sparrow, dark-eyed juncos, and Am. goldfinches.  I last checked the Struthers-Lowellville stretch of the Mahoning River on 1/9 and saw ring-necked duck, c. goldeneye, 10 hooded mergansers, 2 pied-billed grebes, great blue
 heron, an adult bald eagle, e. bluebird, Am. robin, and 20 Am. tree sparrows.  Craig Holt




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