I guess it's welcome back to winter. If you don't live in Northeast Ohio you probably had nice weather today. Not so up here at my North Perry yard. It started snowing again (6" last night) this morning around 8:30 and never stopped until after 4:00. We now have 25" of snow on the ground. I started watching the lake this morning, but once the snow started that was it. It actually started out pretty good with large numbers of gulls and mergs moving to the west. Throughout the day it stopped snowing enough that you could make out some of the gulls. I ended up seeing a couple glaucous gulls and lots of great black-backed gulls. Since the weather was so poor for watching the lake I decided to sit watch the feeders and try a little photography. My feeders have been very slow this winter no birds of note. Around 1:00 I had three COMMON REDPOLLS come in with a few goldfinches. They fed for a few minutes before heading out and not returning. Around 2:30 a female WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL flew in to the feeder area. It immediately went into a pine I have by my feeders and never did go to the feeders. I was not able to find it again. If either shows back up tomorrow I'll spread the word. The way my driveway looks, I won't be going anywhere any time soon. John Pogacnik ______________________________________________________________________ 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]