Like Jay, I spent New Year's Day birding, and I went to a couple of the same places, but I didn't get quite the same numbers. I started at the lake at East Fork State Park, went on to the Cincinnati Nature Center, then to Camp Dennison in the early afternoon. I hit some other spots, like private yards and places where I had staked out some other interesting birds (some hits/some misses) and finished in Chilo, at the Crooked Run Nature Preserve. The first bird of 2007 was a Song Sparrow (in my yard) and the last of the day was a Northern Flicker at Crooked Run for a 7 woodpecker day. Trip List: 1. Song Sparrow 2. European Starling 3. Carolina Chickadee 4. Blue Jay 5. Carolina Wren 6. RED-HEADED WOODPECKER 7. Dark-eyed Junco 8. Bonaparte's Gull 9. Pied-billed Grebe 10. Eastern Bluebird 11. American Crow 12. Northern Cardinal 13. Mourning Dove 14. House Sparrow (only one of the day) 15. Canada Goose 16. PILEATED WOODPECKER 17. Red-bellied Woodpecker 18. Downy Woodpecker 19. Tufted Titmouse 20. White-breasted Nuthatch 21. American Robin 22. White-throated Sparrow 23. Eastern Towhee 24. Yellow-rumped Warbler 25. Golden-crowned Kinglet 26. American Goldfinch 27. Mallard 28. American Black Duck 29. WOOD DUCK 30. YELLOW-BREASTED SAPSUCKER 31. Turkey Vulture 32. American Coot 33. Ring-necked Duck 34. Bufflehead 35. Hooded Merganser 36. AMERICAN WIDGEON 37. Belted Kingfisher 38. BLACK VULTURE 39. Rock Pigeon 40. Red-tailed Hawk 41. Red-shouldered Hawk 42. Cooper's Hawk 43. Great Blue Heron 44. Field Sparrow 45. HAIRY WOODPECKER 46. NORTHERN FLICKER My 2006 summary: 180 species on the year (the first time I have ever kept a Year List) with 37 Life Birds added, bringing my total Life List to 257. Happy New Year to all! ~Kathi ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]