1:57 AM – Maybe it was the number of Mourning Doves trying to crowd into the feeder, but yesterday was one dove-scuffle after another. Here’s a series of vignettes of irritable doves attacking other irritable doves. With soundtrack.

Purple finch on the Squirrel Buster. According to the Cornell  Labs they are winter visitors to this part of the country. I know we haven’t seen many this summer, but in the last week there have been a couple of them around.