Nature Done Wright

   I don’t know about you, but this spring has been an amazing year for backyard birds where I live.

    And I am not talking about the screech owls, or even the female wood duck that appears to be nesting in a box nearby (I just saw her fly into the box for the third or fourth morning in a row).

   No, I am talking about the robin that continues to nest under the window (two nestlings as of today), the Baltimore orioles who have been hanging out in my backyard (though I can’t seem to photograph them very well), and a variety of warblers — from black-and-whites to yellow-throats — that I have not seen before within sight of my window.

     I also have male and female hummingbirds that hit my sugar feeder regularly, and all the usual suspects that brighten a person’s day — cardinals and chickadees and woodpeckers and titmice and blue jays.

   All in all, not a bad view.