I wasn't able to get out on what looks like was a great day for birds on Saturday, due to an all day meeting in Newark. I did manage to get some birding in early on Sunday, before my wife and I took our dog out to the park for his birthday. My idea was to look for some of these irruptive finches that everyone has been seeing, so I decided to hit a couple places that I knew had pretty good feeders: Greenlawn Cemetery, Blacklick Creek MetroPark, and Blendon Woods Metropark (in that order). Bird activity wasn't too high at any of the three spots. I did not see any Purple Finches or Pine Siskins, unfortunately. Noticeably absent were sparrows - I had Dark Eyed Juncos in low numbers at each spot and a single Song Sparrow at the feeder at Thoreau Lake at Blendon Woods. Red Breasted Nuthatches were present at Greenlawn and Blacklick. My best bird of the weekend was a single Black Vulture observed between Newark and Columbus along SR 161 on my way back into town on Saturday. Andy Sewell Columbus, Ohio _____ This mailbox protected from junk email by MailFrontier Desktop from MailFrontier, Inc. http://info.mailfrontier.com ______________________________________________________________________ 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]