Overheated Birds?

The last few days have been very warm, hot even, and not as humid as usual.  

This has provoked the same strange bird behaviour that I have previously blogged.  This time it was not a nuthatch but a downy woodpecker - which appeared to collapse in a rather pathetic looking heap.

You would really have thought that it was on its last legs.

Then a sudden recovery..

Moments later it had flown off looking perfectly normal.

The Cardinals are very active and seem to be ready to think about their next brood of the summer.  

The males are resplendent in their red feathers..

And the females are brown but with a little colour at the edges..