Daily Postcard: A downy woodpecker perched in a cottonwood tree filled with ‘catkins’ Monday in the parking lot of the Overlook Park Raceway in White Rock. A large number of. Source on birds and cottonwood information: Cheryl Heikoop. Photo by Richard Skolnik

A Say’s phoebe perched Monday in a cottonwood tree at Overlook Park, Photo by Richard Skolnik

A mountain bluebird  perched Monday in a cottonwood tree at Overlook Park. Photo by Richard Skolnik