The numbers of winter visitors at my feeders this morning increased in numbers making this the best fall by far in the 9 years that I've lived here. The sightings include: Red Breasted Nuthatch at least 3 inds. Purple Finch 5 inds. 2 males and 3 Females Pine Siskin 8 inds. some are very darkly streaked This has the makings for a very good finch year with all of the scattered reports so far throughout Ohio Rick Counts Northern Wyandot Co. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]