I guess it's welcome back to winter.  If you don't live in Northeast Ohio you probably 

had nice weather today.  Not so up here at my North Perry yard.  It started 

snowing again (6" last night) this morning around 8:30 and never stopped 

until after 4:00.  We now have 25" of snow on the ground.  I started 

watching the lake this morning, but once the snow started that was it.  It 

actually started out pretty good with large numbers of gulls and mergs 

moving to the west.  Throughout the day it stopped snowing enough that you 

could make out some of the gulls.  I ended up seeing a couple glaucous gulls 

and lots of great black-backed gulls.

Since the weather was so poor 
for watching the lake I decided to sit watch 
the feeders and try a little 
photography.  My feeders have been very slow 
this winter no birds of note.  
Around 1:00 I had three COMMON REDPOLLS come 
in with a few goldfinches.  
They fed for a few minutes before heading out 
and not returning.  Around 
2:30 a female WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL flew in to 
the feeder area.  It 
immediately went into a pine I have by my feeders and 
never did go to the 
feeders.  I was not able to find it again.  If either 
shows back up tomorrow 
I'll spread the word.  The way my driveway looks, I 
won't be going anywhere 
any time soon.

John Pogacnik                                     
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