Ron Pittaway has issued a new forecast for "winter finches" in the region. These autumn updates have been very useful in the past, aided as they are by observations from a large cohort of observers in the breeding grounds of these species, and ably summarized by Pittaway. Some of these birds never reach Ohio, but the ones that will are well covered in the forecast. The new one follows in this tradition, offering a lot of natural history insights while looking ahead to the usual species, including as well some other irruptive species of interest. This helpful information can be shared by all for the moment at http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/ONTB.html#1253409860 , and it's worth copying. Thanks as always to Ron and his collaborators. Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ 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]