FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Siskin, etc, Blount County

[Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

South Blount County
11/9/04

Today I finally cleaned out and filled our thistle feeder for the
first time since probably April.

Within 20 minutes there was a Pine Siskin on it!  Poor thing must
have just been waiting and waiting...

At one point, had I the motivation to set up the camera, I would have
had the siskin and an adult male Purple Finch in the same field of
view, though on 2 different feeders.

Also had the first 2 Brown-headed Cowbirds of the season in the yard.
 These were both male.  Though a much maligned species, I find them
quite attractive and welcome.

Sparrows seem low in numbers compared to last Novemeber.  Generally
just a couple Song and a handful of White-throated.

Charlie

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Charlie Muise, Naturalist near
Great Smoky Mountains National Park

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer."  -Edward Abbey
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