FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Red-Breasted Grosbeaks & House Wrens

["Carole Gobert" <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sunday I finally spotted a pair of Red-Breasted Grosbeaks in the thicket in 
my back yard in west Knox County, though they didn't come to the feeders 
while I was watching.  Later in the afternoon on the Norris Songbird Trail 
in Anderson County I was approached by a fisherman who said he had been 
seeing a bird with a black head and red patch on its breast at his home.  
The rest of its front was white.  He thought it might be some kind of 
parrot.  I showed him a picture of a Rose-Breasted Grosbeak and he said that 
was the bird he was seeing.

Back at home, the House Wren returned to my neighborhood a couple weeks ago. 
  Don't these guys ever get tired of singing?  At least they have a pretty 
voice but they do make it kind of hard to hear anything else.  Last evening 
I saw two of them in my forsythia so I guess he's attracted a mate.  Earlier 
in the day I watched one of the wrens fly to one of my two bluebird boxes 
only to be immeditely driven off by a male Eastern Bluebird though the 
bluebirds are nesting in the box on the other side of my house.  A short 
time later the wren returned, entered the box for a few seconds and flew 
away unmolested.  I checked the box but it's empty.

Carole Gobert, Knox County, Tn

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