[birdky] Spring migrants

Got a first of season scarlet tanager today. Have been seeing blue-gray 
gnatcatchers and yellow-rumped warblers for awhile. Cowbirds raid my feeders 
regularly , but the goldfinches outnumber them. I see and hear a nice male 
eastern towee singing early each morning , on his high perch in the juniper 
tree nearby. The house wrens are setting up houses now, a kestrel pair used my 
nest box again. I saw a squirrel run up the pole to the box and thought it 
might be raiding the nest so I put about 4 feet of flashing around the pole. It 
was great justice to see it falling off the pole the next morning and giving 
up. I think the kestrel female laid eggs again because the pair has been around 
since that squirrel raid.  Nice spring.

Terry Anderson
Northern Anderson County

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