I wanted to catch up on the bird arrivals at our place. This morning I heard a yellow breasted chat in a hedge row along the road of our place. This was the first chat I'd heard this season. A couple hours later, in a rainy, overcast mid-morning, I heard and then saw a scarlet tanager in a pretty big black walnut tree in our yard. I had forgotten to mention in the previous posting that I had seen one time an indigo bunting in our yard prior to my posting that entry.

We had a cool event - the fledging of 4 Carolina wrens that came from a nest inside our screened in summer kitchen. This isn't the first that the Carolina wrens have nested on that porch. But, we just happened to catch them after work on Wednesday fledging, and we stood in the driveway and watched the parents coax all 4 out the open screen door, which Kristi had opened quietly and propped open.