It is always a puzzle as to why birds are at our feeders day after day and then disappear only to come again weeks later. I can understand the fact that there is different food available to them at different times, but I would think that they may come less frequently to our feeders, instead of not at all.

It was the turn of the titmouse today, last week both the white breasted nuthatch and the red breasted nuthatch started using the feeders again on the same day. It is great to see them all back again.

Last Sunday we watched a grey catbird steal grasshoppers off some ground wasps that were bringing the grasshoppers to their holes. You would think that grasshoppers are plentiful enough so the catbird did not have to steal them.