Indigo Bunting

Finally have all of 18 bird houses back in place and the tree swallows are checking them out.   Heard the brown thrasher singing yesterday.  It's my second favorite song - next to the bobolink's (which are also back in the meadow).    Oriole came to the suet feeder again, red-bellied woodpecker hung onto the vertical sunflower seed feeder, and indigo bunting was picking at the orange on the oriole feeder.  What can I say - whatever makes them happy. In the Northwoods the folk wisdom says 'Hummingbirds return on Mother's Day".  That's why when one of the guys-that-sit-downtown-and-shoot-the-breeze-in-the-morning claimed he had seen a hummingbird the third week of April, I was skeptical.  To test that out I hung two hummingbird feeders by the deck.  If there were hummers in the area the red of the feeders would bring them in. Didn't see any hummers until this Wednesday.  Even if the hummers arrive a week before or after Mother's Day, I'd count that as right on the money considering the distance they have to travel and that not a one of them knows what Mother's Day is (much less when it is).