[TN-Bird] Eurasian collared dove + other sightings

From: Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:02:33 EDT
Good Morning,
 
Here in the Charlotte Park area of West Nashville, I hostessed a gorgeous  
Eurasian collared dove which fed for about 5 minutes at "Dee's  Smorgabird."  
After I worked my way to a vantage point with my camera,  I managed to get off 
one shot before the bird left.  Unfortunately, it was  a direct "face front" 
shot, and I did not get its great "collar" marking in the  photo. I do wish it 
would return and give me a "super shot" which might be  more definitive..
 
A Bossy Mockingbird is taking peanut butter across the street to the old  
family nesting site, so I suspect that a mate is "sitting."
 
A small flock of goldfinches "invaded" my thistle feeder this morning, and  a 
lone female is still gorging.  The ONE male was breath taking.   Suppose he 
has a harem consisting of four females???
 
A pair of white-throats are still here to feed and add music to the  air.  
Several towhees.are adding to the symphony of song, and house finches  are 
adding their melodies from all directions.
 
Cardinals, robins, chickadees, titmice, cowbirds, mourning doves, Carolina  
wrens, blue jays, grackles, house sparrows and, maybe, a few I forgot round out 
 my feeder friends.  
 
My hummingbird feeder is up and full,but I just don't seem to get any of  
these jewels on their way back here in the spring.  They come to my  feeder in 
late July when they start rambling around and begin heading  toward their 
wintering grounds.  My only spot to place the feeder is  outside the kitchen 
window 
on the northeast side of the house hanging from the  rain gutter, so I guess 
they miss it when they are northbound.  I have to  keep it in the only 
available spot where I can fill it from my deck.  Can't  walk and carry sugar 
water at 
the same time to a spot off the deck!!!  
 
As I am still rather weak from my illness, it is good to be able to sit at  
the computer and have many birds just a few feet away.  I can watch them  
through the French door at close proximity.
 
I do wish I could get away from home to bird more, but I am not  strong 
enough to go very far from the car yet.  I STILL need those upland  sandpipers 
at 
Ensley for my life list!  Anyone know of any closer to  Nashville?   Maybe I'll 
be up to getting them and those elusive  Lapland longspurs next fall, winter 
or spring!
 
I THINK starlings (ugh) are feeding young in holes in the hackberry trees  in 
the back yard.  The freeze-blackened trees appear to be putting out some  
fresh growth, but my massive grape vine hasn't started to "come back" yet.
 
Blessings and happy birding,
 
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN


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