A male Common Grackle today here in the backyard in Norwich village  
provided my first sighting of the year for that species. Also present  
among the 16 species around the yard today were 7 male Red-winged  
Blackbirds, up from a count of 2 yesterday.

Other yard birds today included 5 White-throated Sparrows, presumably  
part of the group which has been present through the winter.

This morning in Norwich village, Carolina Wrens were singing in three  
well separated locations.

Also this morning, a male Northern Cardinal, engaged in a not  
infrequent kind of territorial behavior, was attacking his own  
reflection in the outside rear view mirrors on both sides of a car  
parked in an Elm Street driveway.

George Clark
Norwich, VT