Late Tuesday afternoon, after the rain finally ended, the Northern Shrike that has been visiting my back fields since mid October reappeared. It was perched low, in a young sycamore. Yesterday I walked over to the Geauga Park property just north of Country Lane, to see if I could locate the bird further up the power lines, but didn't find it. An occasional red-breasted nuthatch at the feeders joins the regular winter birds. Inga Schmidt Chagrin River Road at the Geauga County Line ______________________________________________________________________ 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]