The last few days have been absolutely gorgeous at FWG. Bright, sunny, relatively mild. Birds such as chickadees and cardinals are starting to sing more often, rather than just giving their usual calls, and the house finch chorus is quite a treat! But on the whole, bird activity has been relatively slow. A couple of things to note, however: yesterday, 16 February, a sharp-shinned hawk was in the woods calling and calling away for at least five minutes. Oddly enough, no crows were attracted to or by the calls, and the sharpie was left in peace. Today, a northern shrike was around for a short time, harassing a hairy woodpecker. That is, it would fly into the tree the hairy was working on, the hairy would squawk and fly off, the shrike would leave, the hairy would come back, and so would the shrike. The hairy would squawk and leave, and so would the shrike. This went on a few times until both left for good!