Friday, January 21, 2011 We enjoyed watching birds around the yard today. Although we were only home for 4 hours of daylight we ended up with a total of 23 species. Our highest number was 92 American Tree Sparrows. Our most interesting bird was the Northern Mockingbird as we watched it take seed from the trays, eat berries from the bushes and drink from the bird bath. Four Common Grackles and an Eastern Towhee joined our usual backyard birds today - a Towhee was here last month but we hadn't seen him for the last several weeks so it was a nice addition to our 2011 yard list. Ronnie Macko Shari Jackson ______________________________________________________________________ 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]