Greetings, Like everyone else we've had a lot of bird activity at the feeders because of the cold. It's been an arm chair birding day with an abundance of cardinals, goldfinches, RB & WB nuthatches, red bellied, downy and hairy woodpeckers, and lots of juncos, white crowned sparrows and titmice. The pileated woodpecker showed briefly before retuning to the deeper woods. On bitter cold days like this we've had luck spotting owls hunting at dusk from the telephone wires. A trip down Garfield Road, just west of Oberlin turning south onto Green Road gave us plenty of views of deer but no owls. We returned to Gore Orphanage, Wakeman,Lorain County without spotting any of the anticipated Great Horned Owls but a small lump appeared in the headlights as we pulled into the drive. We had spotted an Eastern Screech Owl in our own front yard. What a prize! A happy ending to a frigid day of mainly arm chair birding. Cheers Dorothy & Doug ______________________________________________________________________ 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]