Morning scenes

Now that the growing season is over for the farmers, the blackbirds take to the sky shortly after sunrise to feed on the recently harvested cornfields; shortly after, one of the resident red-tailed hawks follows, probably looking for an errant field mouse or other unfortunate animal for a meal. The blackbirds, well you can almost set your watch by them. out to feed at 6:45, back to roost at 4:45. Apparently they do better with the time change than most of us do ;)

Back at the feeder, the small downy woodpecker is usually one of the first visitors of the morning, once the cardinals and chickadees have settled down.