Another first-ever visitor to our feeders and 40-foot tall white 
spruce this morning -- a red-headed woodpecker. (On Tuesday it was 
the yellow-headed blackbird.)

This has been a very exciting spring at our feeders in Pomroy 
Township, Kanabec County. The sparrows are abundant -- Harris's, 
white crowned, field, chipping, song, clay-colored, and savannah -- 
as are the brown-headed cowbirds, gold finches, mourning doves, and 
red-wing blackbirds. A lone male hummer and a male red-breasted 
grosbeak  arrived this week, and bluebirds are nesting in the woods 
and tree swallows in the bluebird houses. The bobolinks and 
meadowlarks are enjoying the hay field and a belted kingfisher 
perches above the South Fork of the Grindstone River across the road. 
We've been hearing Wilson's snipe winnowing to each other for a month now.

Diana Rankin
Pomroy Township
Kanabec County  

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