Pardon Me, I Was Here First!

Not something one sees every day. Usually no one messes with the red-bellied woodpeckers, but this male red-winged blackbird just swooped right in and helped himself without seeming to care that the feeder was already occupied.

The first extra is the first brown-headed cowbird that I've seen this spring. His mate - second extra - was with him. She'll be laying eggs in some other songbird's nest.