Snowy Day in Gates Mills, OH (right where Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga Counties meet) Richard Buster Banish Started this morning as I put out seed @ 7:00 Between 7:00 and 7:40 I observed the following species on my 2 ½ acre lot. Lot is mostly 30-40 year old hickory trees with maples, oaks, beech, sycamores and a few evergreens. I feed the birds that come to my patio hulled sunflower seeds from a tube feeder and sprinkle some around, under patio furniture. I also have a njger thistle tube feeder, a suet feeder and a large hopper feeder (these are on the edge of my wooded area. A Goldfinch 16 Other critters DE Junco 14 black squirrel - 6 T Titmouse 4 gray squirrel - 8 BC Chickadee 6 fox squirrel - 5 N Cardinal 13 red squirrel - 2 WB Nuthatch 4 WT Deer - 9 Downy WP 4 Hairy WP 2 Blue Jay 5 Mourning Dove 4 ____________________________________________________________________________ Noon check (and peek til 2:30) - only posting new species or if higher numbers Pileated WP 2 Numbers up for Crow 5 A Goldfinch - 22 House Finch 3 BC Chichadee - 11 RB Woodpecker 1 RS Hawk (heard when I got garbage cans in) C Hawk 1 (found in ambush position around corner of house) RT Hawk 1 17 species of birds Cheers, buster ______________________________________________________________________ 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]