[TN-Bird] Birds in feeding frenzy during steady rain

Happy Thanksgiving Birders,
 
Since around noon, there has been a large crowd of assorted species of  birds 
feeding constantly at my feeders here in the Charlotte Park section of  West 
Nashville.  There has been a slow, moderately heavy and steady rain  all 
afternoon.  Obviously, the myriad of blue jays, cardinals, juncos,  chickdees, 
titmice, Carolina wrens, house finches, house sparrows,  white-throateds, rock 
pigeons, mourning doves, starlings, red-winged blackbirds  and common grackles 
have been filling up for the expected cold weather that is  reported to be on 
its way overnight.  Only the absence of peanut butter  which the mockingbirds 
finished off at the beginning of the rain has kept them  away.  Even the male 
downy woodpecker came to sip sugar water from the  hummingbird feeder.  If I 
can 
get up the gumption to go out in the rain and  replenish the PB onto the deck 
rail, the mockingbirds may return.  I open  the French doors and toss more 
seed on the deck where the birds continue to  patter around in the water to 
feed 
on them.  The way the birds are feeding  so greedily today makes me believe 
that their instincts tell them to really fill  up this afternoon for a cold 
tomorrow.  I think it went up to about 70  degrees today, but I've heard 
predictions for a low of 28 degrees in the morning  with a few snow flurries 
expected. 
 We will SEE what actually happens  tomorrow.
 
A lull in the rain just prompted me to put out more PB and other food, but  
NOW those @#&%!!! squirrels have come to really make a dent in Dee's  
"Smorgabird!"  The weather "ceiling" is low enough that I can hear trains  
going down 
the track a couple of miles away.  That often happens during bad  weather, but 
I don't hear them at other times.
 
Enjoy your holidays.  Go find a "good" bird tomorrow, and I mean one  other 
than your roasted turkey or whatever.
 
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN


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