Brown Thrashers

Every year in April for the past few years I`ve had the brown thrashers arrive the week of the 20th of April. They hit my feeder right away . At first there was only one, but over the years he found a mate & I was so happy to have them nesting here in the yard/forest raising babies. I can hear them this year, but far away in the woods & none at the feeder. I am also missing the many catbirds. I have a pair, but that`s it. I don`t know what happened, I blame the snake , but there`s been a pair of hawks nesting at my neighbor`s too. I have not been able to capture photos of them. I don`t believe that they raised any baby hawks this year though.