I've put up the bird feeders in the front yard to distract the mockingbird and cardinal from attacking my strawberries in the side yard garden. They drag them around with such gusto - I've caught them at it now several times.

Lots of birds eating bugs in the front yard, and a finch of some sort is nesting in a hole on the rock front of my house. Once they fledge I'll find a new rock and get some mortar and seal that spot.

I haven't heard the woodpeckers (flickers) yet this year. They're usually here about now. I wonder if just enough of the woods across the road was knocked down by the housing builders to make our woods no longer desirable?

SRS