A female RING-NECKED PHEASANT has been hanging around my bird feeders and taking shelter in the dried weeds and grasses around my garage the last two days. (Feb. 4 & 5) I first saw her on Jan. 7 in my unmown side yard/field, but she didn't stick around long that day. Yesterday (Sun.) she was present all morning and into the early afternoon. She was back again at 8am today (Mon.) She has been eating white millet and black oil sunflower from the ground feeders, but she also jumps up to an open platform feeder containing a lard-peanut butter-oatmeal-cornmeal mixture. I put down cracked corn in the field, but she doesn't seem interested. I hope she survives these frigid temps. ~Kathi Kathi Hutton Felicity, Clermont Co. Delorme pg 82, B3 Lat. 38.828, Lon. -84.063 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]