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[Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx]

At 12:10 PM CST today, I was at my French doors watching my intermittent 
red-breasted nuthatch (every two to three days) pursuing a quick snack on my 
back yard trees, I was astonished and delighted to see a fantastic adult bald 
eagle fly across my yard with white head and tail truly gleaming in the 
noonday sun!  It was visible for quite a distance as it made its way toward 
the Cumberland River and Bell's Bend where it appeared to descend.  This is 
the first time I have ever seen one in the area, and it is now added to my 
list of birds on or over my property.  When I lived on Florida's Lake Jessup 
as a youngster, bald eagles were common residents with two flourishing nests 
within a half mile of our home in each direction along the lakeside.  It is 
grand to have one fly over my home here although it almost gave me a heart 
attack!  Along with my also intermittent brown creeper, that gives me TWO new 
species for my property list this winter.  I had a red breasted nuthatch once 
before back in 1993.  It just seems that unexpected birds are popping up 
everywhere this year.  Keep on birding, everyone.  You just never know what 
may be outside your back door.

By the way, we also had pileated woodpeckers in the yard at our home in 
Florida.  I never saw them gather as families except during nesting season.  
They really seemed to prefer to pull those nasty old palmetto bugs from our 
cabbage palms, so we never thought about trying to feed them.  One did not 
seem to be too shy as he would peck away on a tall cabbage palm while I was 
hanging clothes out to dry on the lines below.  There was always one up there 
to keep me company as I did the laundry.  I did hear that we had some rather 
enraged politically correct pileateds, however, who did not wish to be 
considered part of any other pack and, therefore, pronounced their names 
"PEA'  LEATED" thanks to the accent of a family of real old country Florida 
"crackers" who lived down our sand road from us "a spell."

An ecstatic,

Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN (Charlotte Park)

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