While having a sandwich on the porch, dreading the treacherous drive to
work, a small wren flew underneath a car, then flew right inside the sewer
intake next to the street, which is when I started to suspect something.
Then I watched it again, as it flew into my neighbors bushes, and it seemed
dark and short-tailed. I slowly rounded the corner, and watched it briefly
appear underneath a bag of mulch and some trimmings, before disappearing,
only to reappear one final time on a garden pail on the neighbors' porch
for definitive views. It then flew across the street into a sapling, 7
feet off the ground next to a cardinal, and then flew further and
vanished. This is only the second one I have seen this year, and if you
know anything about the neighborhood I live, you understand why this so
strange. There are no forest remnants, or even good areas of brush around
my house. I live between Preston and Shelby on Barbee Way. This has been
an unexpected encounter, but I guess the ice storm is going to move things
around. Also had a White-throated Sparrow and sapsucker when I woke up
this morning nearby. Now just need a tree sparrow.
Good Birding,
Michael Autin, Louisville, KY
