This evening, shortly after 6PM, a ruby-throated hummingbird, male, visited our feeder for the first time this spring. We have had the feeder up for a week anticipating this arrival. Usual and expected, but thoroughly appreciated, migrants have been filling our fields and forest with song and color. For instance, I have been hearing hooded warbler in the woods since Monday, but this morning one singing male came within easy binocular distance of our path when we took our regular post-chore hike on our farm. Hooded warble is a special bird for me, since it was this species that sparked my intense interest as a boy of 8, 54 years ago, and set me on a lifetime of appreciation of birds and nature. So I consider it my "Anniversary Bird." Another species of note, red-headed woodpecker, I think has set up housekeeping somewhere in the snags left from the derecho windstorm of 2012, in the wooded hollow just north of the farmhouse. I see red-headed woodpeckers here every year, but usually only five or six times. Now it is daily, sometimes hourly, and repeatedly delightful. The "Valhalla 5" species of woodpeckers are now the "Valhalla 6." Bob Evans Geologist, etc. Valhalla Acres Fiber Farm Hopewell Township, Muskingum County ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]