Webber Pond, Bremen

[Ann Nesslage]

the feeder population is picking up again--last week had four bluebirds chasing everyone else away, and now am seeing more woodpeckers.  A downy reappeared last week and a red-bellied today.  Saw and heard a hairy woodpecker in the oak trees and had two flickers in the yard.  A few days ago a few grackles and red-winged blackbirds swept in and out, today about 30 appeared.

saw a flotilla of wood-ducks on the pond plus the usual mallards--

I think the geese may have finally departed--  the changing of the guard--