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["Carole Gobert" <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This morning at my home in west Knox County, Tennessee I had a brief look at 
about 8 cedar waxwings in my wild cherry(less) tree; not sure what they were 
finding to eat up there; it sure wasn't cherries.  A couple hours later I 
was in the backyard putting fresh water in the birdbath and heard a high 
pitched zee zee like call.  Thinking it was the waxwings I searched for them 
in the cherry and then the cedar tree (they ARE called CEDAR waxwings after 
all though I've never actually seen them in a cedar tree).  Finally I saw 
movement in the pine and realized that I had been hearing golden crowned 
kinglets.  Give me an "F" in birdsong today.  Two of the little kinglets 
were very near and I was amazed to see that while one of them had the 
standard yellow crown, the other was sporting a brilliant, in-your-face, 
day-glo, UT orange crown (for the Home Coming game, I guess).  It was 
stunning and appeared twice as large as the puny yellow crowns on the other 
kinglets.  OK, so I looked in the field guide afterwards and learned that 
the males can have orange crowns.  So give me a "C+" for actually learning 
something.

Carole Gobert
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee


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