Folks

Two more yard year birds arrived today, bringing my yard year list to 67.  A single Ovenbird was singing around 11 AM, and about 5 PM a "Brownie" Purple Finch arrived for some sunflower seed.  I got crummy photos of the later but easily recognizable.  

On April 7 my first Myrtle Warblers passed by the house, and yesterday at least four were present.  They are starting to move north in earnest.  On April 9 two Double-crested Cormorants fly south, perhaps to the Harry Nice Bridge to nest.  A sign of the future.  There were several hundred perched on the bridge when I last looked unsuccessfully for the Peregrine Falcons on Saturday.  

On April 10 I photographed five of our local woodpeckers from the deck.  The only migrant was a female Yellow-belly Sapsucker.  The Flickers may be nesting in the area.  A number have been present recently, singing up a storm.  A male Red-bellied is drilling a cavity in the dead oak just opposite the deck.  I am watching for any evidence of nesting.

Spring has arrived.

George