FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Two Sunday Birds

[Bill Cawood <b_cawood@xxxxxxxxx>]

After a pretty dismal CBC on Saturday in my section of the Wise County count 
(Randy, I will send the form to Betsy?!) I had two interesting sightings on 
Sunday.
My brother, who lives beside me, has a male bluebird that attacks his vehicle 
windows.  The vehicles sit near his white house.  The Bluebird attacks the 
driver's side window.  I assume there is a reflection that antagonizes the 
male.  There are some very distinct wing prints and peck marks in the dust on 
the windows.  I have seen the female but she doesn't seem to be antagonized by 
the cars.

Now for the really odd sighting.  Two blocks from my house I saw a GBH rise 
from a birdbath in a yard beside a main thoroughfair.  I saw the bird on the 
birdbath and stopped to gawk.  The 4 ft bird then rose from the bath basin and 
flew South toward a creek.  The basin was standard siaze, just a few inches 
deep.

Bill Cawood, Big Stone Gap VA

Merry Christmas