New for my yard and a treat anytime, anywhere, today 2 male Purple Finches are intermittent guests. A male Red-breasted Nuthatch remains today, enjoying peanut pieces. A Chipping Sparrow was a first-of-spring yard bird yesterday, 2 White-throated Sparrows today (both brown & white morphs), and a male and female Yellow-bellied Sapsucker have been around for 3 days. Kathy Mock Barberton Summit Co. "Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats." -- Rebecca West ______________________________________________________________________ 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]