Always quite busy in my neck of the woods. Wrens, chickadees and titmice are building or are on nests. Cardinals seem to be in courting mode. The red tailed, red shouldered, and cooper hawks have been paired up and am watching one build a nest. Had huge flocks of finches and siskins move through for several weeks - was filling 8 feeders daily !!$$$ Found 2 dead finches on the ground and then read about a bird virus that was taking a toll in the southeast. Took all feeders down for 2 weeks, sterilized them and just put them out a few days ago. The big migratory flocks of finches have moved on but the blackbirds just arrived. Waiting on the grosbeaks and buntings to pay me a visit anyday.

Sitting on the deck, recovering from a root canal : ( saw a flock of +- 50 cedar wax wings hopping around the canopy of a sugarberry tree.

Wow! so many wax wings! Lucky you! I hope you're fully recovered from your root canal. I've had a couple of those......along with about 14 crowns. So much fun growing old! At least the birds keep giving us happiness!

The birds are out here in SW MI. Goldfinches are really starting to drop their winter olive drabs for their yellow summer plumage. Other finches and sparrows, a couple kinds of woodpeckers, chickadees and titmice, juncos and mourning doves, siskin, nuthatch, cardinals, blue jays, starlings, red wing blackbirds.. grackles have shown up too. Saw the first Orchard Oriole the other day, so I know the Baltimores are soon to come.

The swans are back on the pond, chasing off the geese and ducks. Herons on the pond too that the swans don't bother with. Predator birds are out and about as well as crows.

Still to come soon are the grosbeaks, hummingbirds, and turkey vultures. And though I've seen a couple robins while out and about, haven't seen them at the feeders yet.

A couple of towhees wait for some seed from me each day. They are brave birds, and I’m glad my grandkids got to see them come for their seed yesterday. We hear woodpeckers working on the phone pole often. I saw a scrub jay last week, a lonely mourning dove. I wish we had more birds in the yard.

Edited to add: the ubiquitous crows.

Things are picking up here......turkey vultures, hawks, titmice, towhees, sparrows, cardinals, nuthatches, etc. And...this morning I saw a myrtle warbler and a brown creeper......so things are looking up!