[TN-Bird] Hawk visit
- From: Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 09:29:49 EST
Good Morning,
There was much excitement this morning here in the Charlotte Park section of
West Nashville in Davidson County. A hawk, most likely a red-tailed, came
flying in from the direction of Bell's Bend with a large contingent of blue
jays and a flock of red-wings in hot pursuit. It landed in a tree out back,
but behind a bunch of limbs where I could barely see it. I did have my camera
going, but didn't get much except a large, dark hawk as it was horrible light
with the overcast here. I'm fairly certain it was the one of the red-tails
that lives in Bells Bend. The massive flocks of birds which had been joined
by 12 mockingbirds, more jays, lots of robins and others, chased the bird out
of the tree to a neighbor's utility pole from which it flew into a tree
behind other trees in my yard. All "hang" broke loose as the birds, joined
even
by the little chickadees, titmice and cardinals (safety in numbers?), kept
after the hawk which I could not see. Things finally calmed down, so I guess
it left unseen from my back yard. In this light,the tail sure looked long for
a red-tail, but I suspect that was an optical illusion as the tail was never
spread in typical red-tail fashion. T'was a wild ten minutes to say the
least!
After using so much energy in the "fray," the mockingbirds, chickadees and
titmice, in orderly turns, came to feed on the peanut butter I had put out
earlier.
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN
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