FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Brown-headed Nuthatch

["David & Gloria Patterson" <dgpatterson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Houston Lane, Ooltewah (Chatanooga)  35.02 N, 85.08 W
4 PM Feb 5, 2003

A neighbor has a few grassy acres with a barbed-wire fence along the road.  The 
wooden posts are rough and old. The past few days I have been seeing neat new 
holes in some of the posts, about 1.2 inches diameter, and opening down into 
the partly rotted center.

Today a Brown-headed Nuthatch was perched on top of a post, singing his heart 
out, for 15 minutes or more, two different times.  When I got a little closer 
the 2nd time, another one came out of the hole and flew up into a Cedar.

Ah, Spring!  We may get a late February nest.

Also the nearby pond had a loud chorus of Peepers.

David Patterson



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