Yesterday, I ran my usual route at Cowan Lake for eSites and had zero individuals of zero species. The lake was completely frozen over and there were snow flurries from the north with temps a balmy 26F. I remember once reading a CBC report from Barrow, Alaska. Poor guy trooped around in the dark for about three hours and saw nothing, not even a raven. I never expected to be in the same position in Ohio. On a brighter note, we had a very dark Fox Sparrow under our feeders yesterday and a juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk warming its feet on the compost heap. The temperature in the middle can get as high as 170F. Cheers, Bob -- Robert D Powell Congress Farm Research Institute Wilmington, OH, USA [log in to unmask] http://rdp1710.wordpress.com Nulla dies sine aves ______________________________________________________________________ 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]