I had a nice surprise at my thistle feeder this morning-a couple of pine siskins. Other feeder birds: red-bellied woodpecker downy woodpecker white-breasted nuthatch tree sparrows white-throated sparrows dark-eyed junco northern cardinals American goldfinches-just a few house finches house sparrows in abundance blue jay European starling-one on my suet There have been great-horned owls calling at night in the woods between our house and downtown. The bald eagle pair who have nested in the past on Middle Bass Island at the airport were not on their nest on Monday. They have been reported in the woods to the south of the runway. Their nest fell last fall in a big wind storm and they had been rebuilding even closer to the runway. Large numbers of Herring gulls and a few great black-backed gulls can be seen on the ice on the west shore of the South Bass Island. The numbers are growing with the numbers of ice fisherman with shanties present! Still hoping and looking for crossbills! Lisa Brohl ______________________________________________________________________ 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]