...a male and female Wood duck swam side-by-side under a nest box at DGap on Monday. -JulieK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caroline Coe" <cccoe@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: nreza@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: "Richmond Birders" <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Fred Brown" <fredbrown13@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 7:36:02 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [va-richmond-general] Re: Bird Signals and the Song Sparrows are singing and the Red-shouldered Hawks are "interacting", so....... spring must be coming. Caroline Coe On Feb 17, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Naseem Reza wrote: > According to the birds in my backyard, Spring is almost here. Three > male Eastern Bluebirds are competing for the favor of a lone (but > not lonesome) female and checking out our Bluebird nest box. Also > this morning we were delighted to see two Pileated Woodpeckers > crisscrossing our yard but not directly interacting with each > other. A couple of shots are attached. > > Naseem Reza > <Eastern Bluebird-male.jpg><Pileated Woodpecker-female.jpg><Pileated > Woodpecker-male.jpg> You are subscribed to VA-Richmond-General. To unsubscribe, send email to va-richmond-general-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. To adjust other settings (vacation, digest, etc.) please visit, //www.freelists.org/list/va-richmond-general.