FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Junco war; white-throats & a non-TN bird video link of pelican eating pigeon

[Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx]

Greetings & belated happy Veterans Day to our Vet birders,
 
Thanks, Veterans, for your service.
 
Here in the Charlotte Park section of West Nashville, Davidson County, the  
slate-colored juncos are here in great numbers..  They "ganged up on" the  
dark-eyed junco I reported last week and chased him off with great fervor.   I 
am 
quite sure it was a pure dark-eyed as I had quite a lot of experience with  
them while spending summers in the Rockies on a couple of occasions.  I  never 
did get a decent photo of him, but had him up very close to the door  before 
his "cousins" came in and when I didn't have the camera handy.  He  WAS a 
classic, picture perfect, male dark-eye.  Ornithologist Jim Stevenson  has an 
Oregon 
junco in his yard in Texas and sent out a photo of it today.   Junco 
subspecies must be on the move.
 
The white-throats have arrived in full numbers and are having a feeding  
frenzy in an attempt to eat me out of house and home.  The little "chippie"  
stayed for a couple of days, and it is now gone.
 
Several of the other bird lines posted a link to some videos of a  pelican in 
St. James Park in London, England, which you might like to watch as  it 
catches and devours a pigeon.  Here's the link
 
_http://youtube.com/results?search_query=pelican+pigeon&search=Search_ 
(http://youtube.com/results?search_query=pelican+pigeon&search=Search) 
 
Enjoy.   It IS pretty graphic.
 
Dee  Thompson
Nashville,  TN

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