Hello my name is Kathy. I'm from northeastern Ohio. I got started in birding when I was 9 yrs old when one of our neighbors told my mother about Redpolls that were coming to their feeder and we should watch out for them in our yard. That was when we got our first birdfeeder and we did get the Redpolls in our yard too . And that was 28 years ago. Right now we have 17 feeders.