The day brought several first-of-season birds to our Pataskala yard:  a
catbird, a female rose-breasted grosbeak, and a singing blue-winged warbler.
I rarely have white-throated sparrows in the yard, but a pair has been here
for a week.   A pileated woodpecker has been calling hour after hour for
four straight days.  Pileateds have nested in our woods since we moved in 9
years ago, and I don't recall uninterrupted calling for such an extended
length of time.  There has been no answer; I assume his mate did not survive
migration.



I haven't seen a red-breasted nuthatch since April 16.  At one point during
the winter there were at least nine in our yard, and one would occasionally
land on my arm as I filled the feeders.  What a delight!  I thought I heard
one two days ago, but it was just a blue jay mimicking it.  The last of the
juncos also departed on April 16.



Heather Nagy

Licking County








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