Off the deck

My father had his deck rebuilt (mostly by his kids) and in the mornings it's a wonderful place to sit. In the afternoons just now it's too hot, but in the spring and fall it'll be nice - although it's west facing, the trees are very high and it's in shade except right at noon. I've seen a lot birds, and heard even more. Here are some of them.

Here's a red-bellied woodpecker.


And here's the logcock - the pileated woodpecker. There's a pair; this is the female.


When I snapped this I thought it was a titmouse. It's not ... I think it's a phoebe?




Here's a titmouse, rather out-of-focus, sorry.


And this, of course, is a crow.


Here's the 'rain crow', a yellow-billed cuckoo. He did herald rain (a day later, but still...)


One of a pair of Carolina wrens hollering blue murder about something.


And the other... their alarm calls were similar but distinctly different in pitch.


And this female cardinal has definitely seen better days. There are five or six cardinals here - three males for sure - but the males have been stubborn about getting out of the leaves...