Thursday's Bird Watch!

My thanks go out to Dallas Retirement Village resident Pete McDowell for telling us that our Red-breasted Sapsucker has returned to Tilgner Avenue.  I say "our", because a number of DRV residents have been observing this bird, or another one of the same species, for several years at the same tree.  We last saw a Red-breasted Sapsucker at this tree on April 1st of this year.  The story of this species is that they go somewhere else to breed and to raise their young during the spring and summer.  This tree is their winter hang out from September until April.  One look at the tree with its many sap wells will explain why they like to hang out here.