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It has been a week of transition. Nesters are settled in and incubating as well as protecting. There are many robins nesting in the hedge and shrubs various about the neighbourhood. If they are all successful we will be awash with young!! Also at least two hummingbirds have settled although where those nests are I have no idea......I can't find them, try as I may. A Northern Flicker passes through daily once or twice that I notice, and not a word to say. It has a definite route too, interestingly. The jungle sounds have gone. There are about a half dozen Juncos, male and female combined, that visit briefly, usually mid am and then again latter part of the afternoon into the evening. The male red-winged blackbird seem to have become three. Still can't say I have seen a female but there isn't much displaying or singing so someone must be happy. A couple of very colourful American Goldfinch males visit every evening. Oh!! the first part of the week I was treated to the most amazing display of courtship by a male purple finch. He really did it up so beautifully. He fanned all his feathers and dipped and swayed, he sang and he cajoled. The females of which there were several were all more interested in feeding but he persisted and really grooved. They left and he was still just boogying away there on his own. This happened again and again. All our dishes were clean as I needed to stay near the kitchen window. ha! I wish I had that on video. Many Grackles appear to be settling down or trying to. They are so funny all fluffed and distorted and fierce looking when the female tries to feed. The racket they were producing has dropped considerably, thankfully. Having been laid low with a nasty headache for a couple days, I began to plot their rapid demise, let me tell you. My grandmother was a Milner apparently, well before my time, but sounds an interesting profession and one those birds' feathers would have been adapted to I would think. Now they are trying to harvest the robin nests. More noise. There appear to be two swallow families setting up here although it is still hard to tell. The young male was licking his wounds after his trouncing last week but he was getting his mojo back day before yesterday and now he either has a female and is helping her set up housekeeping or he has been driven off totally. A lot more peaceful! The apple blossoms opened up Thursday so I suppose we should expect the wax wings. I would have thought they would be here by now. Rose breasted male gros beak and the other females have left but there is one female who comes back and back again. She wants sun flower seeds and has become quite adept at hovering at the ports to get one. Periodically one of the chickadees will pop one into her mouth. The Blue Jays are back and picking through the debris under the feeder. We still have a nightly chorus from peepers. I have yet to see a toad in my yard. So sad! Marg Millard, White Point, Queens. http://margmillard.ca
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