[TN-Bird] Charming article about a "shoplifting gull" in Scotland

Hello folks,
 
Even though this is not a Tennessee incident, I thought you might all enjoy  
the story about a "shoplifting gull" that goes into an Aberdeen, Scotland,  
market every day and steals a bag of "crisps" which it takes outside, opens  & 
shares with its buddies.  As we all know, birds adapt when they know  where 
there is a food source!  Maybe the gull has also adapted to the  trait of 
thriftiness common to my Scottish heritage.  I got this from  a post on 
Florida's 
BIRDBRAINS.
 
_http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/6907994.stm_ 
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/6907994.stm) 
 
My birthday came and went yesterday without the appearance of my first post  
nesting hummingbird.  Usually, they start coming to my feeder on my  
anniversary of nativity or a day or two before.  Other than my normal  summer 
feeder 
birds, I only had a gorgeous male towhee singing from the top of  my 60 foot 
hackberry and a bossy mockingbird carrying peanut butter back to the  nest 
across 
the street.  Maybe that towhee, whose babies are self  sufficient now, is 
trying to entice his lady into a second nesting.  The  mockingbird definitely 
has 
a second clutch of babies in that nest. I hear  them "cheeping" to be fed.  
When they fledge and the parents bring them  over here, they'll keep me busy 
putting out the PB on "Dee's Smorgabird."
 
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN


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