The migrants are coming through. In addition to the year-round hairy, downy, and red-bellied woodpeckers, jays, crows, ravens (who eat from our compost pile), chickadees, gold\finches, house finches, and white-crowned sparrows, this week also brought a rose-breasted grosbeak, mockingbirds, a catbird, flickers, eastern bluebirds, and two beautiful Baltimore orioles.
The catbirds and the mockingbirds will probably hang around. We have nesting boxes for the bluebirds, and we feed the catbird from a jelly feeder on the front porch. The flickers, the orioles, and the grosbeak are probably just stopping by on their way north.
I suppose I should stop here. Nice nature post. Pleasant. Heart-warming. Unfortunately, every one of these bird species is in decline; some, like flickers, more so than others. It’s the usual suspects–cats, both feral and tame, habitat loss from development and global warming, loss of insects because of monoculture agriculture, pesticides and insecticides.
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