Happy

This makes me happy: two chickadees setting up housekeeping in our chickadee house. We put it up last year and nobody used it. This year it apparently makes the grade for these two!  We’re going to call them Chuck and Dee Dee.

Saw our first yellow-rumped warblers today:

As well as this elusive chipping sparrow.

Also saw some fiddleheads!

We found a second hawk nest to monitor on our way to the marsh. I caught a flutter of wings and a flash of red in some trees beside the road, looked more closely, and saw it was a red-tailed hawk lighting on a branch beside a stick nest. It’s the second twiggy mass we’ll be keeping an eye on!