Thats neat Pat. You should have lots of courting activity going on as spring approaches. Love how the red bird males so gallantly escort their chosen ladies to the feeding trays.
The first bird I ever ID from The Audubon Guide to North American Birds given to me the Christmas I was 10 by Aunt Elsie and Uncle Johnny was a new bird to our backyard in Illinois, a Yellow Shafted Flicker. One has showed uo here to dine on peanut chips. Any of the rest of you see them? They are larger than Blue Jays and Red Bellied Woodpeckers. As I remember they peck a series of square holes thru the bark of pines, etc and drink the sap and eat the bugs doing the same. Or maybe that's the Sapsucker
