[TN-Bird] FOS blackpoll warblers/Carolina wren update

Hello Birders,
 
When I walked onto my deck in Charlotte Park, West Nashville, Davidson  
County, early this morning, I heard the familiar ultra-high sounds of my  
wonderful 
blackpoll warblers who visit me every spring.  One then flew into  the 
hackberry tree right behind the deck and paused in  bare spot long  enough to 
let me 
have a GOOD look before he disappeared into the canopy of thick  leaves.  Two 
more continued to sing from a neighbor's tree before following  their 
"leader" into my tree behind the deck.  Blackpolls have come through  every 
year 
since 1991, and are one of the few warbler species I get in my  yard.  They are 
EARLY this year.  Almost every other spring, they have  magically arrived on 
April 29.  It sure is nice to see them, but they  probably won't stick around 
long.
 
I THINK my Carolina wrens abandoned their beautiful nest in the new gourd  
downstairs.  I have seen no eggs, and she is not setting.  He is  singing more 
from the back of my property of late.  My house wrens have  also seemingly 
abandoned me as well.  Between two neighborhood cats that  hang around and an 
opossum that visits every night, the birds may have been  scared away from 
having 
their eggs so close by.
 
Cheers & pryers,
 
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN

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