And I usually have one throughout most winters in my Licking County yard. One staked his claim on a feeder one year. He guarded it from sun up to sun set. Manon VanSchoyck -----Original Message----- From: Ohio birds [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill Whan Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 5:23 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] SOUTHERN COMFORT 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] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]