A brown headed cowbird joined the action at the feeders today... January bird #25 on my lame, sad list... It seems a little unusual for Mr. Cowbird to be slumming it this far north in January? I've also got lots of juncos, cardinals, goldfinches, house finches (extra vivid this year?), house sparrows, three song sparrows, two white-throated sparrows, a smattering of tufted titmice, mourning doves, chickadees, wb nuthatches, downy wp, red bellied wp, bluejays, a hairy wp, and a gorgeous red shouldered hawk showing up from time to time, scattering all the other birds in every direction. Starlings, crows and a flicker have also been seen in the yard this week. I have not seen/heard the resident carolina wren since the weekend. The weather is keeping me from increasing my January list at any sort of respectable rate... pray for a heat wave. Karen Gray Copley, Oh / Summit 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]