Sure is cold but it is really looking good out there. Starting to have whitecrowned and white throated sparrows around my feeder and today a Rufus Sided Towhee showed up .. I sure love those. Beautiful bird. Also a brown creeper and lots of kinglets out back, both ruby crowned and golden crowned. Went to Grand Lake St Mary's yesterday and in the upper ponds was a lot of shorebird action. I am not very good on IDing them yet but for sure was some lesser yellowlegs , greater yellow leg, least sandpipers, a fall Wilson's Phalarope, dunlins, and other sandpipers I am still workin' on IDing from my pictures I took . Great time of year except for the cold . Russell Lima, 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]