A colorful white-striped form of WHITE-THROATED SPARROW joined the usual suspects this morning at the feeding stations in our Warren backyard. Nest building: a black-capped chickadee was pulling out big tuffs of soft fiberglass fibers from a fireplace gasket that was left laying on a patio table. Not sure this was such a great idea, so we took it away. I replaced it with a mesh bag (type you buy little oranges in) full of soft down feathers. So far nobody has claimed any that I've seen. Lona Pierce,Columbia County