Well, that's good to hear. I don't have the native lantana, though I have been on the look out for it, but I do have 20+ Beautyberry sprouts growing in flats and three others ready to go into the ground. Still, it's probably going to be a season or longer before they're big enough to really have much draw. And no, I'm not going to be planting all 20+ sprouts. Not even half of them. I really don't know what I'm going to do with them all. Perhaps hold on to them in case I ever become social enough to attend a swap or something. I bumped into a vendor at the Ocala Spring Festival last month and was asking her about the native lantanas and she mentioned that L. drepessa is not really recognized as a native species anymore. Apparently, according to her, it is popular opinion that L. depressa has been too cross-pollinated with L. camara to truly be the natives. She claimed that she had some L. depessa, but didn't bring them to the sale because of the debate.

Absolutely Lesser Goldfinch. By the way, I don't know how much time you spent looking at warbler pics, but you would have saved yourself that effort by noting the bill shape: warblers have much thinner bills. Bill shape and size is often a good clue to point you in the right direction; bright colour patterns you'll likely remember without trying, but the bill really needs to be looked at (unless we're talking about a toucan or spoonbill etc). Just a friendly hint. -O-

We are very fortunate because both B. orioles (and Orchard too) and R-b grosbeaks will stay all summer and nest. We live in the part of North Dakota that had severe flooding this spring and our house was in jeopardy for awhile (but was safe in the end). Obviously it was extremely stressful. I commented to DH the other day that all the birds are making up for the flood! There are great things about living here once we get through the winter! Of course, for that matter we have some pretty cool winter birds too such as redpolls.

What great photos!! You certainly are lucky to have such wonderful activity at your feeders. I so enjoyed looking at all your photos, thanks for sharing them.