Wild Season Coming to an End

Around here, May and early June are something of a "Gold Rush" for birds, most of whom are raising fledglings. Stocks of foodstuffs, especially suet, drop quickly every day. Eventually the young are reared, family groups move into more "natural" foods (weed seeds, insects) and things are much calmer at the feeder stations. It looks very much like that mad dash is waning and summer is about here in earnest. I haven't even reloaded the woodpecker-friendly suet feeder in about a week now, and BirdCam photography shows only modest traffic throughout the day. This Pine Warbler, for example, only dropped by twice. Presumably the insect population is at a level these carnivores like. And I can handle not buying a dozen cakes of suet each month for awhile!