I started up my winter feeder yesterday and my first feeder bird for the year on South Bass was a red-breasted nuthatch! Bob Glauser said he has been getting one for about three weeks now on his feeder. Also within the first ten minutes I had a brown creeper and golden-crowned kinglet in the tree near the feeder-but not in it while watching. We have had small groups of bufflehead coming through and one or two common loons seen at a time this past week. Saw my first tree sparrow at Scheeff East Point on November 9 and saw swamp sparrows over the weekend on Middle Bass Island. We have large numbers of Bonaparte's gulls around in addition to ring-billed and herring. Lisa Brohl ______________________________________________________________________ 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]