[tn-bird] Re: CLARK'S NUTCRACKER...near Anniston Alabama

What marvelously pesky boids. I can't begin to calculate how much gorp I've fed
these guys over the years. Sigh -- we're stuck w/ Eurasian sparrows and 
starlings
here while the folks out west get Gray jays, Stellar's jays, and Clark's ncs...

Liz Singley
Kingston TN

RubyThroat@xxxxxxx wrote:

> In a message dated 4/27/02 5:13:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx writes:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Just a thought for those of you who head to Alabama to hunt for Clarke's
> > nutcracker...............I got my first one(s) as I was walking behind
> > Timberline (Timberlake?) Lodge on Mt. Hood, Oregon.  It was just past lunch
> > time, and I was finishing off a bag of potato chips as I walked.  I dropped
> > a
> > half of one, and, voila, several nutcrackers flew from the top of the
> > building right down to my feet to snatch it up.  I emptied the rest of the
> > package (about 6 chips) on the ground.  They snacked, I feasted on looking
> > at
> > them, and they followed me the rest of the way around the hotel to my car
> > in
> > the parking lot, apparently hoping for more chips.  I do not necessarily
> > suggest potato chips as food for them, but I have since seen them in
> > various
> > places eating (scavenging) almost anything.  Perhaps they have cast iron
> > stomachs.  It seems that many birds do.
> >
> > At Mt. Charleston, north of Las Vegas, I took pictures of these birds
> > feeding
> > on the pine nuts of the lodgepole pine.  They are delightful, and usually
> > somewhat tame, birds, so GO TO SEE THIS FELLOW if you have never seen one.
> > I've never seen a Clarke's I wasn't glad to see.
> >
> > Dee Thompson
> >
>
> Dee and Tennessee Birders:
> Martha Sargent and I and several Tennessee and Alabama birders saw this
> marvelous first state record bird yesterday afternoon.  What a treat!  It
> will obviously be a lifer for many of our friends in Alabama and in Tennessee.
>
> Take care and God Bless.
> Bob Sargent
> Trussville, Alabama
>
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