I occasionally see rose-breasted grossbeaks when they pass through here. None yet, though. I sometimes hear a pilliated woodpecker, but I have yet to see one. I seem to have been invaded by grackles.

The coolest thing I've seen was a pair of hawks dancing with each other in the air yesterday. I don't know if they were sharp-shinned or cooper's hawks since I only saw them in the air, with the sun above/behind them.

So far, the damned yellow warbler alarm-clock bird hasn't shown up. I don't think he got lucky last year, despite being loud enough to attract females from 100 miles away for more than two months, and may try elsewhere. Like the song goes, "If I had a rocket launcher..." (not really).