After being away visiting family for the holidays, I returned to find that the female Varied Thrush is still a regular visitor to our yard near Grand Rapids. It arrived on 11/29, so tomorrow will mark at least 1 month that it has been here. I'm not sure exactly which feed it's eating, but I've been throwing a cupful of cracked corn plus some of a commercial mix that includes dried fruit, peanut pieces, and sunflower chips under our white cedar each morning. Occasionally I've seen it picking at a cheap blueberry suet cake I placed under there as well. -- Shawn Conrad Sponsor <http://bighalfyear.dojiggy.com/itasca> my Big Half Year for the Bog or My Brrrrdathon <http://saxzim.dojiggy.com/itasca> effort www.saxzim.org ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html