[TN-Bird] Bossy Mocks back to peanut butter, et. al.& question

Greetings TN_birders,
On Sunday morning, one of my bossy mockingbirds sought me out in my bedroom 
by perching in the holly tree outside the window here in the Charlotte Park 
section of West Nashville near the Cleece's Ferry Boat ramp.  I immediately 
came 
out to feed the spoiled little thing.  After being off the peanut butter for 
the fall season, they are back to begging for p.b. and their grape jelly.  Just 
now, I walked out to replenish, and the mock from the yard to my south was 
right back at the old game of landing on the perch to feed before I could get 
the peanut butter smeared on.

Two red-bellied woodpeckers were having a turf battle far back in my back 
yard.  I witnessed the "loser" fly away very quickly heading toward the deep 
wooded area at the intersection of Annex-Thunderbird-Cabot Drives that extends 
across a ravine and back toward the river.  It's also one of the haunts of the 
great horned owls.

My downy woodpeckers have been around, and another raft of redwings were here 
this morning along with all the usual suspects that feed on my deck.

People in Texas are talking of Bohemian waxwing sightings.  Do WE DARE 
wish???  Watch your flocks of cedars carefully.  After all, would it be TOTALLY 
beyond the realm of possibilities?

Can any of you great Botany Buffs tell me what is WITH the birds attraction 
to my 6 foot cosmos plants?  Everything from my one and only gnatcatcher to the 
myrtle warbler, titmice, chickadees, wrens, cardinals, etc., climb up and 
down among the short string-like "leaves" of the cosmos constantly.  I have 
actually inspected the plants with a magnifying glass and cannot see what in 
the 
world the birds are after--not even an aphid is visible.  Help!

Happy Thanksgiving and super birding,

Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN


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