You sound like you have a busy yard Margaret. The downys are looking for their nesting area, we have had our pair return to the yard after hardly seeing them all winter - and they were both inspecting the tree they nested in last year.
I still have 1 lone male junco and 2 pair of pine siskins, starting to wonder if they have decided to stick around for the year...and only one goldfinch back so far.
...and just this afternoon I noticed a small, brownish bird (fits right in with the dead leaves and dry grass colours) rustling around the garden, I think by looking at the tail movement that it is a wren - crossing my fingers that it is still around tomorrow morning and this rain holds off until I can get a picture of it, or even a positive ID. I had never seen a wren 'til
one stopped in on its way south last fall.
Joann
