Thanks to Su Snyder for creating this Snowy Day Birding Contest. Thanks to Su Snyder for creating this Snowy Day Birding Contest. The activity brightened a day filled with dire newscasts of bad weather from the Midwest all the way to Alaska. I participated last year also, but I never turned in my results. So, here goes:  9am: 10 Dark-eyed Junco, 8 Housefinch, 1 White-throated Sparrow, 4 House Sparrow, 2 Cardinals (pair), 3 Chickadees. 10am: 1 American Tree Sparrow. 11 am: all resting in Mock Orange’s tightly laced branches. 3 pm: 4 Mourning Doves, 1 Blue Jay, 2 Hairy Woodpeckers (pair), 1 Downy Woodpecker (female). 5pm: most resting, digesting and fluffed out. Expected to see but did not: Goldfinch, White-breasted Nuthatch, Canada Geese, neighbor’s cat.  Eleven species.  My loudest bird of the day was a National Guard helicopter. My best bird was the Hairy, now that I can finally ID them from the Downy without having to have both present simultaneously.  Had fun and stayed warm,Kathy Weideman-Heipel ______________________________________________________________________ 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]