[tn-bird] Good news/bad news

A pair of prothonotary warblers has been checking nest sites around our yard 
for the last couple of weeks.  They went so far as to build nests in a bottle 
next to the carport, a hanging-basket type thing next to the kitchen window 
and a Gilbertson bluebird box in the woods next to the house.  The warblers 
have been scarce around the house lately, perhaps, we thought, due to intense 
interest in their affairs by a cowbird.  I went this morning to check the 
Gilbertson box and was thrilled to find three eggs.  I was not so thrilled to 
also find a cowbird egg.  The interloper egg was dispatched so now we can 
only hope that the warblers have not been wholly put off and frightened away.


Van Harris 
Millington, TN

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