Having put up my nyger tube feeders only yesterday, and seeing 8 pine siskins already this morning, I went out to Dawes Arboretum, where they keep the feeders full all year round. Here are the birds I saw: red-bellied woodpecker blue jay Carolina chickadee tufted titmouse RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH white-breasted nuthatch white-crowned sparrow dark-eyed junco northern cardinal PURPLE FINCH (“dipped in grape juice” look; stripes on flanks purple, not brown.) house finch pine siskins (total of 23!) American goldfinch The purple finch was a new LC year bird for me – making 197 on my “Big County Year” list. I did Project Feeder Watch at Dawes last winter, and I never saw the species in caps above on my watch. Margaret Bowman Licking Co., OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]