FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Eurasian collared dove at feeder, + peewee, hummers, y-b sap, etc. here

[Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx]

Good Morning,
 
Just now, (7:30ish AM), Dee's "Smorgabird" in the Charlotte Park section of  
West Nashville hosted a glorious Eurasian collared dove, and I even got some  
close photos.  The dove first came to feed about 15 minutes ago.  I  got off 
two photos, then a pesky squirrel arrived and "spooked" the dove.   A few 
moments later, the dove came back down to the feeder and ate hungrily  while I 
snapped away with my camera.  It fed fast and furious for a few  moments before 
it 
became nervous and flew up into the hackberry tree behind the  deck.  While 
I've been typing, it has disappeared from that  perch.  I do get that species 
once in a great while, so I keep  watching.  I believe a pair has nested in the 
neighborhood, but I haven't  found the nest. I've seen as many as four 
together over nearer the river  a block or two away and over near Rock Harbor a 
little less than a  mile away by air..
 
Yesterday morning, I walked outside to replenish bird seed and  heard the 
plaintive "pee-a-weeeee" of an eastern wood pewee.  Just as it  repeated 
itself, 
I looked up into the hackberry where it was perched on a  "naked" branch.  
After a third call, it took flight toward the river.
 
Hummingbirds are still pretty thick here including about a male a day among  
the numerous females and immatures.  The downy woodpecker has already been  to 
drink sugar water this morning at daylight. Chickadees, titmice and house  
finches drink water from the ant traps in and above the hummingbird feeder very 
 
frequently.
 
My mockingbirds still come to my "C'mon Bossy" call when I put out peanut  
butter and jelly for them a couple of times a day.  They begin  "snarfing it 
down" before I can get back inside the door which is only ten feet  away from 
their feeding spot.
 
Just this moment, a yellow-bellied sapsucker flew onto the mid-section  trunk 
of one of my hackberry trees.  He has disappeared behind some  foliage.  Glad 
to see this fellow as I had NO y-b saps last winter.   Of course, I wasn't 
watching much as I was ill all during December and away from  home in 
hospitals, 
etc., most of January, February and March.
 
Thank goodness that birding from my dining room can be such fun!   Perhaps 
SOON, I can get out more!
 
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN


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