The birds are ravenous in this weather. They let me get about 4 ft. From them
this morning while I was feeding them. They are fighting for their lives! We
have a male towhee that lost all but one tail feather. Will try to get a decent
picture of him and attach it to an Ebird report.
On Dec 26, 2022, at 9:30 AM, Lyneart <lyneart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBERS=============
Due to events probably inappropriate to share on this forum, I was already
in a besieged mindset which required carrying a sheathed machete for possible
use as self defense before this recent weather event happened. The cause of
that mindset has been resolved enough that I’ve actually begun making a few
bird observations. Despite no second sighting of a Harris’s Sparrow I saw in
the back field some time ago, I continue to carry along a seed packet each
time I go back there to check the cattle and cut ice. This morning, I began
to accumulate a train of bird followers as I picked my way by the herd
accounting for all. The moment I dumped out my seed packet, several Rusty
Blackbirds joined the usual group of White-crowned Sparrows with me no more
than a step away.
Frank Lyne
frank@xxxxxxxxxxx - near Dot in Logan County, KY
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