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[Raincrow <raincrow@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's been a bit thin here, south of Kingston, for the past several days,
except for a constant stream of titmice and a few chickadees. However,
there is mammalian action -- I just rescued my new and
ill-(but-fun-)placed deck feeder from a matched pair of young raccoons,
who pillaged it as my cats looked on, agog. At least in my vicinity,
natural forage this year looks excellent and I wonder if my birds are
dining native in preference to "store-bought."

Liz Singley
Kingston, TN


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [TN-Bird] Re: feeder clientele gone missing
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 18:59:06 EST
From: Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx
Reply-To: Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx
To: jreese5@xxxxxxx, tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

About 3:30 PM today, I noticed a massive feeding flurry with chickadees, 
titmice, cardinals, wrens, juncos and ferociously fighting male house
finches 
trying to fend off the one male purple that showed up to claim a meal. 
It seemed 
as if I had more birds than ever.  My chickadees and titmice seemed to
both 
have late nests, and I think their brood(s) are still here.  Several
pairs of 
all the birds except juncos and p. finch nest here, but it seems like
I've had a 
bumper crop.  Mourning doves, mockers, robins, house sparrows and rock 
pigeons were all in abundance as well.  I've had two white-throats off
and on, but I 
did not see them today when I was doing kitchen duty which was my only
time 
to watch.

Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN  (Charlotte Park a few blocks from the old Cleece's Ferry
ramp)
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