If you are a birder, what are some of your better recent spring sightings?

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answer:I haven’t had anyone new or unusual, but the red shouldered hawks have babies! My yard’s bird list: ruby throated hummingbird, mocking bird, cat bird, blue jay, brown thrasher, chickadee, titmouse, cardinal, brown-headed nuthatch, white breasted nuthatch, red breasted nuthatch, downy woodpecker, red bellied woodpecker, goldfinch, mourning dove, brown thrasher, robin, Eastern bluebird, red-shouldered hawk, Cooper’s hawk, barred owl, American crow, house finch, purple finch, Carlina wren, brown headed cowbird, dark eyed junco, Eastern towhee, cedar waxwing (occasional). Plus a number of sparrows, warblers, and finches that I am not knowledgeable enough to identify. Not bad for a 1/5 acre lot (I am the only one in the entire neighborhood that puts out feeders, so I am Grand Central Station for birds.)

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