I heard my first woodpecker in a while the other day and forgot to mention it. I only mention it now because I remembered that when I realized I was looking at the first robins out my window.
As suspected, the base of the doghouse is rotted. Some of the decayed wood stayed behind now that we could finally roll it out of that spot. We want it to dry out a bit before dismantling it, and just as we rolled it onto the edgers, the clouds rolled in to a more ominous level of not sunny. Rain soon followed, but so far was just a brief shower.