Pine Warbler 4/18/2017

    I think I've been hearing at least one Pine Warbler around the yard for the past few days.  Today it came out in the open for a couple of minutes and I was able to get a few shots of it.

  It was only the second Pine Warbler that I've seen from the yard and it arrived six days earlier than last year.

   Speaking of birds that I've only seen twice in the yard, a Eastern Towhee stopped by last week for a photo shoot.

    The local Pileated Woodpecker hadn't visited the yard since February but he came by yesterday to destroy a suet cake.