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[Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx]

Good Morning,
 
There was much excitement this morning here in the Charlotte Park section  of 
West Nashville in Davidson County.  A hawk, most likely a  red-tailed, came 
flying in from the direction of Bell's Bend with a large  contingent of blue 
jays and a flock of red-wings in hot pursuit.  It landed  in a tree out back, 
but behind a bunch of limbs where I could barely see  it.  I did have my camera 
going, but didn't get much except a large, dark  hawk as it was horrible light 
with the overcast here.  I'm fairly  certain it was the one of the red-tails 
that lives in Bells Bend.  The  massive flocks of birds which had been joined 
by 12 mockingbirds, more jays,  lots of robins and others, chased the bird out 
of the tree to a neighbor's  utility pole from which it flew into a tree 
behind other trees in my yard.   All "hang" broke loose as the birds, joined 
even 
by the little chickadees,  titmice and cardinals (safety in numbers?), kept 
after the hawk which I  could not see.  Things finally calmed down, so I guess 
it left unseen from  my back yard.  In this light,the tail sure looked long for 
a red-tail, but  I suspect that was an optical illusion as the tail was never 
spread in typical  red-tail fashion.  T'was a wild ten minutes to say the 
least!
 
After using so much energy in the "fray," the mockingbirds, chickadees and  
titmice, in orderly turns, came to feed on the peanut butter I had put out  
earlier.
 
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN

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