In my last post (5/4/2017) I mentioned how the spring migration had seemingly begun at my house.  I spent much of the day in the yard on May 7 and it confirmed my observation. I saw three warbler species (Wilson’s, Orange-crowned and Yellow-rumped Audubon’s), a pair of Brown-headed cowbirds, a House wren and a Black-headed grosbeak (original appearance 5/5/2017).   During the course of the day I saw a total of 29 species, took 205 photos (and deleted 98 of them).  That left a lot of processing to do which has now been completed.  Here are a few photos from the day…

This pair of Brown-headed cowbirds showed up mid-morning, right after I began observing…

This is a male Rufous hummingbird that has given up trying to monopolize the feeders.  We also have a male Anna’s hummingbird in the yard.

We still have four Golden-crowned sparrows which have yet to migrate.  I think I may have mentioned that we had two in a prior post but yesterday there were four!

We have a pair of Downy woodpeckers that were coming and going to both peanut and suet feeders multiple times during the day.  And I saw one of the woodpeckers steal a peanut piece that a nuthatch had secreted in a madrone tree crack (see my last post).  Our male Hairy woodpecker that frequented our peanut feeder for the past several months seems to have deserted us, probably to find a mate.

Finally, here are three of the species of warblers that visited… Orange-crowned, Wilson’s and Yellow-rumped Audubon’s.