This morning I had a robin feeding its young near my back porch,
this afternoon the young wood thrushes were in the tree, near
our front door, that held their nest, and this evening I saw
a red-eyed vireo feeding a young vireo next to the driveway.
I got good looks at the vireos--the baby looked full grown,
and it called incessantly, a kind of "weep, weep, weep," while
it shook its wings. The parent bird was grabbing caterpillars
for it. Neither bird seemed to mind that I was watching them
so closely--at times they were in the trees just above my head.

I also saw a red-bellied woodpecker that seemed to have no
red on its head. Do juveniles take a while to get the red feathers?

The wood thrush nest is gone. Only the bottom couple of leaves
and a piece of plastic are left. My dog sniffed the base of the
tree and up on the trunk as high as she could reach. This makes
me think an animal may have taken the nest--I couldn't
find it on the ground anywhere.

--Pat

Pat Valdata, Elkton, MD | 
"The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards
and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods.
More than any other thing that pertains to the body
it partakes of the nature of the divine." --Plato