Could ignore his singing this morning and found he was checking out the jug in my entranceway, hopefully for a nest. It hasn't been nested in for several years, perhaps because the noise of the garden guy's leaf blower scared birds away.

My bird chorus on a spring morning: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5lsc74gkuhcu2hy/Merlin%203-27-23.mp3?dl=0 I used the Merlin app in my phone to capture the sound.