I’ve been enjoying the migration taking place in and through our yard.  The vast majority of our migrating visitors are Wilson’s warblers…

and Orange-crowned warblers.

We have been inundated by both and I have scores of photos.

Other visitors are Black-headed grosbeaks.  We have at least one pair, and I recently confirmed that we have at least two males.

In a prior post I showed a photo of a Red-breasted nuthatch attempting to hide a seed in a crack of a madrone tree.  The nuthatch has been still trying to hide a peanut piece in the same crack.  Here is the nuthatch with the food still in its beak after repeatedly attempting to position the food carefully in the crack.

This spring we had a flock of about 25 Bushtits that visited the feeders several times a day.  The group access has ended, but one pair seems to be returning for food.  This is a photo of the female.

Over the past several days (5/9-10) a pair of crows began bringing in small snakes.  I lost count at five snakes and I’m sure there have been at least ten.  It’s a real mystery to me as to where the crows are finding the snakes.

But the BIG news, which occurred on May 10, was a White-throated sparrow that made three separate trips to the water feature over the course of the afternoon.  Just this past winter I photographed (and saw) my first White-throated sparrow in Skagit County, and here was one that was good enough to appear in my yard while I had my camera at hand!