Here's what I'm seeing the last few days (4/15-19) up here on Greenbluff:
-One lone male black-chinned hummingbird using recently placed nectar feeders
-At least a dozen tree swallows fighting over rights to a nestbox hung in a tree near garden
-A western bluebird pair taking up housekeeping in a nestbox placed on pasture fence post (and a couple of other pairs on neighbors' property where we placed nestboxes for them last year)
- Pygmy, red-breasted and white-breasted nuthatches finishing off the last of suet cakes in cage feeders
- American goldfinches finishing off the last of thistle feed in feeders
- Spotted towhees scratching up the ground below where sunflower seed feeders were set up until recently (end of season when we feed)
-Red-tailed hawk soaring and hunting overhead (for what we suspect might be either mate and/or hatchlings in nest near top of Ponderosa pine
- Killdeer on ag fields along our road
- Pair of western kingbirds hunting insects in ag fields along our road
-Pair of mergansers, mallards and Canada geese on small pond along our road
-- Madonna Luers