[TN-Bird] A cold day

As we expected on a cold day, the birds were busy. The pileated showed up at 
the suet an hour early. The house and purple finches were up to their elbows 
on the flat feeder among some of the more than fifty goldfinch in the yard. All 
27 usual species were here. The coopers hawk scattered everyone several 
times, only one goldfinch tried to flee via the windows and survived to tell 
the 
tale. The brown headed cowbird females consorted with the female redwing 
blackbirds with only a single male in the group. The male redwings formed a 
separate 
flock, both parties coming and going separately. A fine red tailed hawk 
searched the ground beneath several tree boughs, being sent on from each by the 
jays. There must have been 30 cardinals, many more white throated sparrows. The 
bluebirds returned after an absence to crowd into the nest box. Everyone fed 
until low light when a sudden high freezing wind sent everyone to shelter all 
at 
once. We need more feed tomorrow, so much was used. Ralph and Kay Brinkhurst, 
Lebanon, Wilson Co.

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