[TN-Bird] Catbirds as Yardbirds-- in Suburbia

10 June 2009
Nashville-Davidson County, TN

 

I have been surprised over the past couple weeks at birds I have heard in my
yard, three miles from downtown Nashville between Hillsboro Road and Belmont
Boulevard. I reported earlier on an Acadian Flycatcher that spent a day
here, around 01 June, and this past weekend, for two days, I heard an
Eastern Wood-Pewee. But for three weeks now I have been observing, hearing
and seeing, Gray Catbirds. I haven't found a nest, but I suspect there is
one nearby. I hear the cat-like "meyew" every morning at first light. I hear
one singing mornings and evenings. I see a pair lurking and flying low from
dense shrub to shrub in the yard.

 

Over the years, we have allowed the vegetation to grow up, turning mowed
lawn to perennial garden, shrubs, thickets.  I think the results are not
only more privacy for us, but more habitat for Catbirds. At least I hope so.

 

Kevin Bowden

 

 

 

 

 

 



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