After chasing all over to see crossbills, I saw snow being knocked out of hemlocks as I filled feeders after school.I figured it was a raiding squirrel, but instead it was a male and female WW crossbill! Right in Chardon a block from the high school! They dug into those cones for over half an hour. So if you have conifers, keep your eyes open; and if you don't, you should consider planting some! I have blue and Norway spruce, Douglasfir, hemlock, scotch and white pine, Fraser and white fir, juniper and arborvitae, all on 1/2 acre lot. Between the conifers and my feeders, the birding is usually better in my yard than most parks. Plus the privacy is darn good for a corner lot on Maple! I started most of my trees from inexpensive packets sold by the Soil and Water Conservation office. If you plant them, they will come... Marilyn Rohr Chardon, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]