being leveled for planting but did not see the Golden Plovers though there were tons of Mourning Doves, Crows etc. Nearly everything seen was to be expected except my FOS N. Parula The bird is on private property so I never saw it but it is singing up a storm. This is a place where they have a territory almost every year. My concern, as is the case with the swallows, is that these insectivores are arriving in cold ugly worthless weather and I don't know how they manage that. For sure they be no insect movement around here recently. Kinglets are a rarity in the Utley area this winter...Either they have froze out or moved out. Likewise Orange-crowned Warblers. A couple of Roadrunners are "moaning"...A female R.B. Woodpecker keeps working herself to death on the same two trees and has for over a month to no avail..She chips away at a dead Post Oak and gets a good hole started then hits that rock hard heartwood and has to give up...She is to determined and/or stupid to try to find another tree and just starts another hole on the same tree or its equally dead neighbor. ********************************************************************** Brush Freeman 503-551-5150 Cell 120 N. Red Bud Trail. Elgin, Tx. 78621 http://texasnaturenotes.blogspot.com/ Finca Alacranes., Utley,Texas Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission from the List Owner