Greetings & belated happy Veterans Day to our Vet birders, Thanks, Veterans, for your service. Here in the Charlotte Park section of West Nashville, Davidson County, the slate-colored juncos are here in great numbers.. They "ganged up on" the dark-eyed junco I reported last week and chased him off with great fervor. I am quite sure it was a pure dark-eyed as I had quite a lot of experience with them while spending summers in the Rockies on a couple of occasions. I never did get a decent photo of him, but had him up very close to the door before his "cousins" came in and when I didn't have the camera handy. He WAS a classic, picture perfect, male dark-eye. Ornithologist Jim Stevenson has an Oregon junco in his yard in Texas and sent out a photo of it today. Junco subspecies must be on the move. The white-throats have arrived in full numbers and are having a feeding frenzy in an attempt to eat me out of house and home. The little "chippie" stayed for a couple of days, and it is now gone. Several of the other bird lines posted a link to some videos of a pelican in St. James Park in London, England, which you might like to watch as it catches and devours a pigeon. Here's the link _http://youtube.com/results?search_query=pelican+pigeon&search=Search_ (http://youtube.com/results?search_query=pelican+pigeon&search=Search) Enjoy. It IS pretty graphic. Dee Thompson Nashville, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________