FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Keep eyes & ears open: rainy day feeders

[Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx]

Good Morning,
Since I've read that there have been two POSSIBLE Bohemian waxwings reported 
in Florida recently--one in the panhandle and one in South Florida yesterday, 
both by birders known to be familiar with the species, it would be wise for 
ALL of us to keep our eyes and ears peeled for a "possible" here in Tennessee.  
Hope somebody out there gets lucky and snags one.

Now, one of my female cardinals has gone for the peanut butter!  I don't know 
what these birds "know," but, even in all that rain all day yesterday, my 
deck was filled with feeding birds from dawn to dark here in Charlotte Park, 
West 
Nashville, Davidson County about four blocks from the Cumberland River.  
There were two beautiful male redwings that were about halfway to their mature 
plumage.  The brownish streaks were deepening in color, the yellow was almost 
full in the wing with enough red feathers emerging in the epaulettes to look 
almost robin-red-breast in color.  They were truly striking birds in their 
adolescence  Throughout the day, a couple of hundred birds seemed to be 
"stocking 
their personal larders" with food as if they were REALLY going to be needing 
it.  
I seldom see cardinals, juncos and other yard birds stick around and eat 
constantly in the absolutely driving rain on the deck, nor do the "bossy" mocks 
usually keep coming constantly in heavy rain like they did yesterday.

A sharp-shinned made a pass at them yesterday sending birds scattering, but 
my cute little juncos have found a closer hiding place following a lead set by 
my Carolina wrens.  I have quite a number of large flower pots with larger 
tops than bottoms on the deck for container gardening, and the wrens and juncos 
tunnel in around the bottoms of those where the predators cannot get to them.  
Ingenious little darlings, aren't they?

Cheers & prayers,

Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN


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