All the birds have been bringing families around, it seems like. We have absolute swarms of nuthatches, a young downy was pestering its dad at the suet feeder, I’m pretty sure some of the white-throated Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds we’re getting are juveniles and not necessarily females, and I’ve seen brown Red-Bellied Woodpeckers peeking out of the nest hole though not yet flying around yet.

Catbirds are not big seed fans, so mostly we just hear them around. A catbird family has been hitting the mystery maybe-a-crab tree out front lately, and the berries? apples? have been running out, though. This one did a little scavenging under the suet feeder. A lot of berry eaters will eat suet (and my current mix includes dried cranberries) though with the upside-down suet feeder the catbirds can’t reach it directly.