FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Re: Mockingbird flock

[Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx]

Hello,

Ever since my wild grapes started getting ripe several months ago, I have had 
at least twelve mockingbirds in and out of the approximately 84 foot long 
vine around my deck almost all the time.  There may actually be more in that it 
may not be the same twelve birds all the time.  There are three yards near me 
that provide nesting sites for mockers every year, so literally hundreds of 
these birds have been reared nearby and brought to my "smorg-a-bird" for peanut 
butter every year since 1991.  No telling how many showed up to fight over the 
bumper crop of the tiny wild grapes when they became ready to eat.  Some of my 
cardinals, sometimes thirty birds at a time, started eating the little grapes 
while they were still green.  It's been fun, but the grapes are just about 
gone.  I've had cardinals nest in a rose bush and in a holly tree this year, as 
well as feeding many more from nests in all the neighboring yards.  They were 
coming in droves.  A bumper crop in grapes brought a bumper crop of  
cardinals.  I still have babies flitting around the deck with their little 
BLACK beaks 
with no hint of an orange tint yet.  All these birds and my two poodles make 
up a pretty large family to look after.

Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN  (Charlotte Park, west of town, near the old Cleece's Ferry 
landing) 
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