Right before the stormy weather blew in Friday morning I had a very birdy yard. I love it when I can watch a lot of birds without even leaving the house! Had a few new arrivals to my yard for this fall/winter. The fruit trees were a major attraction and were graced by some of my favorite yard visitors: Cedar Waxwings. Some fall colored Chipping Sparrows and a few Juncos were new. Also had my first Pine Siskin of the fall, but it only made a brief appearance at my finch feeder. List below: American Robin - 40 ... a large flock feasting in the trees and on the ground Eastern Bluebird - 4 Tufted Titmouse Carolina Chickadee White-breasted Nuthatch Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 a good sighting for close to the house (not much to interest them) Yellow-Rumped Warbler - 4 Chipping Sparrow - 10 kind of a surprise, haven't seen them for weeks Darke-eyed Junco - 3 White-throated Sparrow - 2 Song Sparrow Eastern Towhee - 1 American Goldfinch - 12 House Finch - 2 Pine Siskin - 1 House Sparrow Northern Cardinal - 6 Red-Bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Euro Starling - 20 Blue Jay - 6 Red-Winged Blackbird - 20 a migrating flock of males and females American Crow - 4 Turkey Vulture - 2 Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Wood Duck - 4 a flyby flock, we've been host to groups of up to ten (refuge from the hunters) on our stream. I think 26 species of yardbirds for only about an hour of watching was pretty good. Many of those birds are species I hardly ever get up near the house. It made this dreary day more bearable. Good Birding, Ben Warner ______________________________________________________________________ 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]