Even in the warmer climes of Columbus, we seldom have mockers in the winter. I hadn't had one for ten years until Mockarthy showed up in November, probably attracted by a bountiful crop of holly berries. Day before yesterday, when it was 3 degrees F, I found his corpse on the yard, and he's going to the OSU Museum collection. Bill Whan On 1/22/2016 4:10 PM, Elaine & Marty Cohen wrote: > this has indeed been an unusual winter for birds in NE Ohio. > yesterday and today we have a mockingbird in our yard at the feeders > (sunflower and safflower seed and millet). this is the first ever > mockingbird > at our house in any season of the year in 33 years. > > Fairlawn, OH (suburb of Akron) > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Dean Sheldon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> At about 1640 yesterday (1.22.16), we were greeted with the arrival of a >> Northern Mockingbird at our bird feeding area here in south central Huron >> County. A single male bird was seen making quick work of the ripened fruit >> on our Winterberry shrubs. Mockingbirds are not common to this area at any >> season of the year. Of course, that made this sighting even more exciting >> and a welcome ending to the holiday birding at our wildlife conservation >> area. >> >> Dean Sheldon >> >> Sw of Greenwich in Ripley Twp ______________________________________________________________________ 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]