This is Elmer. He is our resident bluebird.

He spends nights alone in the bluebird house in our backyard. He has no bluebird friends. He pals around with chickadees, titmice, and other feeder regulars. Flocks of 5 to 7 bluebirds visit sometimes then move on, leaving Elmer behind.

He likes homemade suet dough and standing on the railing under the suet cake cages waiting for woodpeckers to knock off pieces of suet. We see him almost every day.