I saw two new arrivals on my morning dog walk yesterday:

A meadowlark was perched in a serviceberry tree, then flew to a fence post briefly, and finally flew across our horse pastures to the spruce tree grove at the bottom of our property.  I have yet to get a photo of a meadowlark, maybe this will be the year.

At the road intersection below our house, I saw a male indigo bunting who was singing away in the top of a tree.  We normally get 2 mating pairs of indigo buntings and both pair hang out on opposite sides of the road.  There is alot of dense brush which they like.

In the afternoon yesterday, I was waiting by our willow tree to get shots of a yellow-bellied sapsucker pair that have pecked lots of sapwells around the trunk at 3 different levels on the trunk.  I was surprised to hear our newly arrived male hummingbird at the tree.  He was helping himself to the sap in the sapwells.  Guess I don't have to worry about him getting enough to eat.  This explains why I see them in the woods where there are no flowers, and why they arrive before our yard flowers are in bloom.