One of my favorite things about the arrival of May is: I see birds that aren’t usually at our feeders.

Remember this picture of a male rose-breasted Grosbeak from several days ago?

This is his mate – the female.

She is pretty in her own way, but not as brilliant as the male.

This is another bird I rarely see – a Red-headed Woodpecker.

It was fun to watch him for awhile.

This is one I see almost every day, but she was posing quite nicely on a bush outside our kitchen window.