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TN-Birders,
Here in the Charlotte Park section of West Nashville, Davidson County, near 
the Cumberland River, my pair of house wrens are not the only ones in the 
neighborhood.  There is another pair two doors down and a pair across the 
street.  
When the "choir" starts singing, it is really quite lovely, especially when I 
can stand at my bathroom window and watch my little fellow perched on a 
swinging grapevine serenading his lady on the nest while hearing his backup 
singers 
serenading their mates (presumably also on nests) in a couple of other 
directions.  Wonder if the other two pair are last years nestlings that have 
come 
back "home" to roost and raise their young?

My two field sparrows eat daily and often break into song for me, and the 
chipping sparrows follow suit.  A lone song sparrow has been here for a couple 
of 
days where it loves to scratch around in the old grape leaves at the edge of 
the deck and often parades back and forth to pick up bird seed only five feet 
away just outside the French doors.  It's a heavily stripped sparrow with a 
very nice "stickpin."  Yesterday, it flew up and perched about eight feet away 
twice, really showing off its chest.

A massive influx of fully fledged and hungry house finches AND house sparrows 
showed up yesterday just all at once and proceeded to eat me out of house and 
home.  Parents feeding babies were everywhere and babies trying to fly up to 
the tube feeder and find space were abundant.  One LONE male goldfinch could 
not get to the tube feeder because of "all the traffic" and finally opted to 
come over to the thistle sock which is hanging from an eave in front of my 
French doors where he "hung around" for quite a while.

Great numbers of cardinals are around as are mockingbirds, chickadees, 
titmice, doves and robins.  I drove into my driveway yesterday just as a robin 
landed in my maple tree.  It was carrying a big, fat earthworm and flew across 
the 
street behind the neighbor's house probably to feed young ones.  I found a 
clump of feathers on my deck the other day.  Looks like either a chickadee or 
titmouse was "taken" by something.  With one titmouse wandering around 
plaintively calling continually, seemingly searching, I suspect the titmouse 
lost its 
mate.

A Tennessee warbler graced my trees with its presence and song yesterday.

With all the male and female cowbirds still hanging around courting, I just 
hope my beautiful nesting birds are not going to end up parenting baby 
cowbirds.  Rock pigeons are plentiful and shamelessly breeding right out here 
on the 
deck in front of me.  Too bad that these nasty "city" pigeons aren't fit to be 
served up as squab with wild rice stuffing!

&$@# squirrels are EVERYWHERE!!!!  If I weren't so afraid they might "have 
something," they'd soon become "squirrel & dumplings!"

Happy birding,

Dee Thompson
Nashville





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