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[Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx]

Happy Fourth of July Everyone,
 
Here in the Charlotte Park area of West Nashville, I have so many very  
welcome baby cardinals, titmice and chickadees that they are eating me out of  
house and home!   I also have TOO many greedy baby starlings who  literally 
ABSORB 
food.  It is grand that the cardinals have raised their  OWN babies this 
year.  Out of seven nesting pairs last year, we only got  ONE cardinal baby.  
The 
cardinal parents were busy feeding baby  cowbirds.  Although I have many adult 
cowbirds around, I haven't seen even  one baby so far.  Maybe  my adult birds 
of the other species "wised  up" and tossed their eggs out of the nests.  
Have lots of mourning doves  with babies, and several mourning dove couples are 
shamelessly copulating again  right out on my deck as I write.  My 
mockingbirds' young have been chased  away from the home front, and my three 
ladies are on 
eggs again at their  respective nests.  Everywhere I look, there's a 
chickadee or  titmouse.  Have about 30 of each coming around with their  
different 
parents.  Lots of little house finches are still wearing  their "under-fuzz" 
beneath their more substantial feathers.  One adult male  house finch has a 
large 
bulbous growth on top of his beak just where the beak  joins the head.  It 
looks very much like a large, full tick, but it is  definitely a growth.  I see 
it very close up when he comes to the feeder  that hangs just outside the 
kitchen window.  He seems healthy  otherwise.
 
A few minutes past noon, I stopped at the Hill's Grocery at the corner of  
Charlotte Pike and Hillwood/Annex Avenue.  An absolutely GORGEOUS pale  
yellow-green budgerigar was flying around over the door and into the eaves 
where  the 
house sparrows hang out.  It then flew into the parking lot and landed  on the 
pavement several times.  It was obviously lost and "out of its  element."  It 
seemed very confused and afraid.  I don't know if it is  someone's escaped 
pet. It may have escaped from the PetsMart up the hill in the  new Nashville 
West Shopping Center, which has either just opened or is about to  open.  They 
may be getting stock for their new store and let the bird  escape in unloading 
or whatever.  It appears to be a very healthy  looking bird, but I am sure it 
is somewhat stressed by the unfamiliar (?)  territory.  He sure had the 
attention of everybody in the parking  lot...........mostly senior citizens on 
this, 
Hill's senior citizens discount  day.
 
Super birding to you,
 
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN


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