As the number of regular pine siskin visitors has dropped, all of a sudden the goldfinches have moved in.  We now have about 40 of them.  They perch in our backyard crabapple trees making very colorful ornaments.

We have lots of baby birds coming in with their parents: chippng sparrows, song sparrows, bluebirds, starlings, phoebes, robins.

I found a second yellow-bellied sapsucker nest within a 1/4 mile of our house.  The female is on the nest inside an old tree trunk while the male makes sap and bug runs.

The first clutch of phoebes fledged over the weekend.  That same day, I saw the adult pair mating.  There are already 2 new eggs in the same nest.

We now have 4 chipmunks racing around our backyard.  This could get to be a problem as they expand their tunnels.