At my home in Geauga County, the winter visitors to the feeders look about the same
as any other year.  Top numbers are am tree sparrows and juncos (20 - 30) with the 
usual 3 white throated sparrows, and 1 or 2 song sparrows (my most numerous summer
sparrow). I rarely get white crowned here, and a towhee is an unusual surpise if
it overwinters in my yard.  

Inga Schmidt
chagrin river road Geauga Co. at the Cuy Co line

On Feb 1, 2015, at 12:00 PM, John Herman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>     Have other Ohio feeder watchers observed a significant lack or absence
> of song, tree, white-throated and white-crowned sparrows at their feeders
> this winter? Sure, a person can go to Killdeer Plains, Big Island, etc. and
> see decent numbers, I'm guessing, of these relatively common feeder
> species. Did the subzero temperatures of late November push sparrows south
> of where they would normally winter in Ohio? Towhees are basically unknown
> in Richland County this winter. A few can normally be found at the
> southeast areas of the county.
>     When is the DOW going to introduce a raptor that preys on starlings &
> house sparrows?
>     Stay safe, stay warm,
>     John P. Herman
> 
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