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[Carole Gobert <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sunday, May 4, west Knox County.  I was hearing what sounded like two Blackpoll 
Warblers (yard bird 58) and had gone into my back yard to investigate just 
before 10 a.m. when I heard the whistle of a Broad Winged Hawk (YB 59).  Looked 
up and sure enough, there was the hawk flying toward the other side of the 
house.  I hurried to the front yard and saw two Broad Wings (wide white tail 
band).  I also started hearing a Red-Shouldered Hawk (YB 60), which made sense 
because I'd gotten on a hawk with obvious wing windows near the tips 
(momentarily confusing me).  I then realize the scope of the incredible scene 
in the sky.  There are 6 large birds.  To the west is the Red-Shouldered being 
dive bombed by a Crow.  To the east are two hawks (the Broad Wings) also being 
harassed by a couple of Crows.  My attention divided, I concentrated mostly on 
the closer group (the Red-Shouldered) but they all rather quickly to my way of 
thinking flew out of sight.   As for the wrens, the Carolina Wrens fledged from 
the nest on my garage shelf Friday; when I arrived home Friday evening there 
were young Carolina Wrens (at least 3) flying frantically around my garage, 
bumping into walls, hopping back and forth on the window ledges, landing on the 
furnace, flying into the rafters, etc. and two worried parents making a racket. 
 I wasn't home much on Saturday but on Sunday the young wrens periodically 
returned to the garage, making high pitched chipping noises (begging?).  Now 
most every time I go out my door (which opens into the garage) I set off a wren 
alarm.   As if that wasn't enough excitement for one day (when I didn't go 
birding), just before 8 p.m. I was bleaching the mildew from my back deck when 
I spotted a male Rose-Breasted Grosbeak on the sunflower seed feeder.  He fed 
at length a couple times and then could be heard gently warbling from the 
nearby thicket.  No sign of him this morning but I didn't have much time to 
look.  I didn't get any Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks last spring when everyone was 
seeing them at their feeders.  Had 4 in 2005 that stayed several days. Carole 
Gobert, Knoxville, Knox County, TN
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