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[Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx]

Greetings TN Birders,
A real "stage show" was just performed on my deck as a squirrel apparently 
got too close to my house wren's nest.  The wren had it ire up in good fettle 
as 
it repeatedly chased the squirrel through the grape vine on my deck, often 
zapping the squirrel as brutally as possible in its behind.  After watching for 
a few moments, I let my squirrel-hating poodle out to dispatch the critter 
from my deck for the time being, at least.  We are in the Charlotte Park area 
of 
West Nashville, Davidson County, just a few blocks east of the Cumberland 
River.

My yearly influx of black-poll warblers arrived on Friday, and a couple are 
still here.  It seems that I am really on their route home, but I really don't 
get many migrants since the people next door took out all their trees to keep 
the leaves from falling into their little swimming pool.  Once in a while, I 
still get a nice straggler that gets off course somehow.

On Saturday, one of my mockingbirds accepted peanut butter right from my hand 
for the second time ever.  I was a little slow in getting it out there that 
day, so the bird just "couldn't wait" for me to place the peanut butter on the 
feeding spot and came right on down to take it from my hand.  Two others, less 
brave, perched close by and waited for me to deposit their food.

Yesterday, I went to mail a letter in one of the boxes that are still located 
in the old Walmart shopping center at Charlotte Pike and Annex Avenue in West 
Nashville, where a small flock of rough winged swallows were flying around 
over the empty lot and the grassy field down below it.  That shopping center is 
vacant now except for a couple of places.  It is beginning to look a bit run 
down with all those empty stores, thus a lack of care.  Maybe the swallows will 
nest in the area.  A couple of years ago, rough wings were nesting over at 
Nashville Tech on White Bridge Road.

Cheers & Prayers,

Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN


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