Been waiting for a month for this, and now Both Chimney Swifts AND Barn Swallows have arrived at my yard. They rode in on the winds on the backside of a line of MASSIVE thunderstorms that passed through on Friday. Now, although Hummingbirds have been reported in my area, AND I have FIVE Hummer feeders out, I haven’t gotten a single Hummer, YET. Any day now I think one will come. Next on the Ag-end, is the arrival of Cedar Waxwings to strip My Mulberry Trees clean, That should start happening in two to three weeks. Mourning Doves are building a nest in my Willow tree at eye level, five feet from the edge of my porch, making for EXCELLENT Photography. Also a pair of Northern Cardinals have been seriously eyeballing the Eastern Red Cedar in front of my front windows so I may end up with a nest there, too. Must get BOSS this week for the Doves to eat as well as other birds, and my suet feeders are empty, too.
I won a Bronze Award on picli.com for a picture of a Starling I took in my willow tree. The Starling was about 3 feet from the Dove nest, in the same tree. I Have also had two other bird pictures on the front page of Picli.com. One is a male Eastern Bluebird on the roof of a picnic shelter and the other is a very EMO Blue Jay at my platform feeder, which again, is about five feet from my Dove nest.
