Haven't seen many postings lately. Here's what we have had lately young bird wise- mourning doves, wild turkeys, ruffed grouse, killdeer, great blue herons, double-crested cormorants, turkey vultures, ospreys, bald eagles, red- bellied, downy & hairy woodpeckers, tree & barn swallows, blue jays, American crows, common ravens, Carolina chickadees, tufted titmice, white-breasted nuthatches, European starlings, bluebirds, brown thrashers, gray catbirds, robins, house sparrows, house finches, song sparrows, eastern towhee, red- winged blackbirds, common grackles, cardinals, to where & rose-breasted grosbeaks. Today we listened to a mockingbird do the following; flicker, song sparrow, Carolina wren, wood thrush, cardinal, tufted titmouse, spring peeper, gray tree frog, robin, starling, American toad & killdeer. We are seeing more Red-headed Woodpeckers in Summers, Mercer & Monroe counties. I wonder if the emerald ash border has anything to do with the increase. We bring our bird feeders in at night because of raccoons. As I put them out this morning, I had a young downy woodpecker try to land on my chest & shoulder and a young towhee hit me in the head as he got away from a feral cat. Obviously, I was less scary than the cat. Jim & Judy Phillips Summers County Pipestem, WV
