I hope you do give your chance Encounter seeding another chance :) Maybe it will be better in more sun. Of course, the color may not be so pretty, but who knows. I am the one who has such a hard time getting rid of seedlings though. I've been going through mine, have several reds, various shades & sizes, & am having such a hard time whittling them down.

Wow! That is amazing! I have only seen them a few times & always around water-not the ocean, just swampy places. Is that house especially for Prothonotary warblers or for other cavity nesters? Where are you located? That is so special! Do you have other cavity nesters? (Full of questions aren't I?) Susan

Thanks, Catherine. I've never seen or heard of one before.

Thank you for your responses. Have you ever looked at a word for so long, a common word, and the more you look at it, the less you are sure if it's spelt right? That's what happened with the bird. LOL. Of course it's a goldfinch, and I methodically talked myself out of it. I'm laughing, because I once did that with an ornithologist to whom I sent an image of a female red winged black bird and pulled a blank on, yet one I have seen enough to know better. The goldfinch showed up with another one who had yellowed up well, and I could see that they were identical in size, markings and all other respects. Thanks for being so polite with such a dufus question.