Over the past week, my backyard feeder visitors included: Common Grackles (many) Red-winged Blackbirds (many) Brown-headed Cowbirds House Finches House Sparrows Tree Sparrows Northern Cardinals Blue Jays Mourning Doves Mallards ("residents") Canada Geese Cooper's Hawk (watched him have a feathered meal) Other visitors to our development's lake included: Ruddy Ducks (M&F; he stayed, she left!) Lesser Scaups (2) Hooded Mergansers (M&F) Great-Blue Heron (fly over) Happy Birding, Patty McKelvey Sheffield Village, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]