I snapped a picture of one of two catbirds, hopping through the grass on the lawn looking for their breakfast on May 23. They were not close enough to get them both in the same picture. They went, one after the other, into the cedars, each with a mouthful of nest-building material. I snapped the goldfinch eating seeds from the dandelions on May 27. - Vera DeWitt, Mount Delight Photos of gray catbirds are usually quite hard to get, as this is a species that sticks to thick shrubbery most of the time. Obviously this pair felt comfortable out in the open. Catbirds can nest twice in a season, the first time often in an evergreen and the next time frequently in a deciduous shrub later in summer after the leaves have become well developed. They are "mimic thrushes," along with cousins the brown thrasher and the northern mockingbird. In New Brunswick, the gray catbird is the most widespread. The male goldfinch loves dandelion seeds. - Jim Wilson