With a mostly free weekend, I had the opportunity to spend a couple hours "working" in front of the feeder window. Not an atypical day at the feeders, but after a while, I took a stroll down the road. It immediately became evident that there was lots of activity in the woods. Lots of the birds I was seeing at the feeder would make very brief appearances, and some, like the Red-bellied never came in. It has definitely been a weird winter. In the first two months of 2011 I had 13 species on 24 checklists, so far this year I have 22 species on 12 checklist for the property. home, Windsor, US-VT Feb 11, 2012 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM Protocol: Area 4.0 ac 16 species Mourning Dove 20 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Present all winter Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 3 Blue Jay 20 Common Raven 1 Black-capped Chickadee 10 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 European Starling 8 White-throated Sparrow 1 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 20 Northern Cardinal 1 Female, present on and off all winter Purple Finch 1 Pine Siskin 4 House Sparrow 1 First for the area in years This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/vt) -- Good Birding, Spencer