I'm posting for the first time since my hard drive was replaced. Let's see if it works! First of the season today: Pine siskins (three, at thistle sock) Northern mockingbird (suet feeder/suet mixed with dried berries) I've had more tufted titmice this year than ever before. The first few years I lived here, I had NONE. Yesterday, I had three at one time. And, I'm seeing all the regulars: no. cardinal Ca. chickadees W-B nuthatch downy and red-bellied woodpeckers lots of house finches and somewhat fewer Am. goldfinches many house sparrows very few dark-eyed juncos Missing - my Carolina wrens. They nested in the neighborhood last summer, and have always attended my suet feeders in the fall. I haven't seen or heard them for over a month. I can always tell when Top Gun is in the neighborhood (my name for the female Cooper's hawk). And what's with the mourning doves. They seem to be increasing exponentially! I had almost forty in my yard at one time yesterday. Now I'd love to have a purple finch, but I'm not expecting one. It would be a new yard bird. Happy window birding, Margaret Bowman Newark, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]