This morning we swept the 2" of snow off the patio and cast some safflower and sunflower seed. Almost immediately besides the usual juncos, house sparrows, house finches, Carolina wrens, red-breasted nuthatches, titmice, cardinals, and Carolina chickadees, etc. etc. etc., we had 4 female red-wings, 8 male cowbirds and 5 female cowbirds. Is this the avian edition of Desperate Housewives? Ed and Bev Neubauer Englewood, Ohio **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]