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On Flint Ridge, Hopewell Township, Muskingum County -

Yesterday morning's walk (Thursday) yielded a mockingbird hanging out in a
brush pile in the pasture of my neighbor to the south. I saw another last
week around our spring near the house. These sightings are not daily
occurrences, so I figure these birds are migrants passing through. Time was
(2001 - 2007) when we hosted an over-wintering mockingbird, and I am
watchful for another.

Pine siskins continue to dominate the finch mix around our feeders. I would
estimate that there are 30 or so siskins, often crowding out the house
finches and goldfinches at the nyger and sunflower feeders.

A flicker visited the suet yesterday afternoon, not an unusual bird, but an
unusual visit to the suet. I usually find them in the forest, or anting
around the fairly common large anthills around the property. A good close
look at a male hairy woodpecker deep in the woods yesterday was also a
treat. Males are uncommon visitors to our suet feeder. I remember reading
in a definitive work about North America woodpeckers (a work so definitive
that I can't currently remember its author...sorry) that male and female
hairy woodpeckers have very different feeding preferences.

Nice to see the sun again, yesterday afternoon and this morning.

Bob Evans,
Geologist, etc.
Hopewell Township, Muskingum County

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