Fellow trapped birders, A Level 3 snow emergency has left me, and many of you, trapped at home counting yard birds, a fact well documented on this listserve. The up side of that is the 40 SPECIES OF BIRDS I saw in the "yard" yesterday. That's when I define the entire 60 acre farm as the yard. When I limit it to the 6 fenced acres, it only 30, with Rusty blackbird, Fox sparrow, Brown creeper among the best. A walk in the woods turned up ten more, including EASTERN PHOEBE, actively hunting in a snow storm, in the wetlands part of the place. A year bird, to say the least. The down side of being trapped out here was not being able to get to Somerset for the paper and a doughnut. One of the many hardships of living deep in the woods. I'm suffering mild withdrawal, not really helped by the arrival of one single House Sparow this morning for a weekend total of 41, so far. But, it looks like the doughnut number will not change, and that is a tough burden to bear. If a doughnut does show up, I'll be sure to post it here, and dress it up with a few bird reports to make it legal. Joe in the woods Somerset, Perry County ______________________________________________________________________ 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]