From my backyard windows, I can see a pair of White-breasted Nuthatches
working in a tree cavity that the starlings rejected.  (They must have
known it was too good for them!)

My dog has started her spring shedding, so when I cleaned her brush I
put the hair in a new suet cage.  I hung it low on an old brick burner
in the yard.  I just saw one of the nuthatches go down to it and pull a
big clump of dog hair to take for the nest!  I didn't get a good look at
which mate it was, but the literature says it would have been the
female.

I have so much to do inside the house today, but I'm not getting very
much done because of the danged birds outside...!

Kathy Mock
Barberton, OH
Summit Co.

"When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them
all." -- Edward O. Wilson

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