I had a hoary redpoll at my feeders this morning around 10:15. It was amongst a group of about 100 redpolls. It may possibly have been the same bird that was last seen on 12/31. Looking at my photos I took then, it sure looked the same. But as before there was little feeder activity at all until around 10:00. Birds started coming in and close to 10:30 a group of house finches came in followed by the redpolls. The birds were there about 5 minutes and a sharp-shinned came in scaring everything. The house finches returned about 20 minutes later, but the redpolls never returned. I walked around looking along the cliff and saw nothing. I left around 11:45. When I giot home this evening the feeders were barely down. I have a Cooper's and a sharp-shinned regularly coming to the feeders so when the birds are here they are jumpy. I'll advise if it returns. John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]