The female Purple Finch has been faithful to my feeders since 2/11. She tends to appear early in the morning & is favoring black oil sunflower seed. Feb 21, 2015 Deer Crossing Patch Stationary 0 miles 219 Minutes Observers: 1 All birds reported? Yes Comments: Filling feeders & yard watching; started at 22 degrees; been snowing all morning 121 Canada Goose -- Flyovers & on our frozen lake 1 Cooper's Hawk 2 Ring-billed Gull -- Flyovers 18 Mourning Dove 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 7 Blue Jay 2 Black-capped Chickadee 11 European Starling 3 American Tree Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow 24 Dark-eyed Junco 7 Northern Cardinal 1 Purple Finch -- Female continuing at my feeders 5 House Finch 10 American Goldfinch 25 House Sparrow 6 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) -- Flyovers ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]