The overnight rain left everything wet and clean. Bright sunshine and wind soon dried the outdoor furniture. The temperature only reached the low 70s, unlike last week. A mockingbird was making display gestures all over the yard. Brown headed nuthatches came for seeds in a steady stream. Bluebirds picked through the barkbutter mush left by last night's rain. A red bellied woodpecker came for suet lunch.
The yellow roses were coming on just as the red roses faded. Between the roses, the rue, and the daylilies, the yard was dominated by yellow. But the magnolias were also starting to bloom. Bluebirds were definitely feeding nestlings in the bluebird house. And it looked like mockingbirds were nesting in the witch hazel bush by the sidewalk.
I looked up cavity-nesting birds that might use a birdhouse:
wrens: Carolina, house
woodpeckers: downy, pileated, flicker, red bellied
titmice, chickadees
bluebirds
brown headed & white breasted nuthatch,
great crested flycatcher
prothonotary warbler
tree swallow, purple martin
wood duck
house sparrow, house finch, starling
barred owl, barn owl, screech owl
kestrel
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