[TN-Bird] Re: Loggerhead Shrike x2 and an odd duck
- From: Mark Greene <greenesnake@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:43:58 -0800 (PST)
In regards to your Wood Duck - she was thinking of using your chimney as a
nesting cavity! Wood Ducks are cavity nesters and will sometimes try to use
chimneys and stove pipes for nesting or roosting cavities. Several years ago my
grandfather went to put some wood in his wood stove and when he opened it up a
Wood Duck flew out into his living room! Two years later the same thing
happened
again! He also had a Chimney Swift and a couple of bats enter his house the
same
way. We used to tease him about those - everytime he went to open that stove
we'd say "better watch out, there's no telling what might fly out of there"!
Good birding,
Mark Greene
Trenton, TN
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From: Laura Jennings McCall <laurajmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tn bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, March 9, 2011 8:38:15 PM
Subject: [TN-Bird] Loggerhead Shrike x2 and an odd duck
Bedford County, 3/9/11
After picking up my daughter from the sitter's this afternoon, I saw 2
Loggerhead Shrikes, about 20 feet apart, in the fencerow on Amos
Gamble Road in Flat Creek.
About 6 weeks ago, during one of our cold snaps, I saw a Downy
Woodpecker impaled on the barbed wire fence about 200 feet from where
I saw the shrikes today. I really wanted to check it out further but
the roads were bad that day and I didn't think I had time to linger--
and it was gone when I returned that afternoon. I presumed that a
shrike was responsible for the Downy's death, but I was still pretty
surprised that they would take something so big. Is that unusual?
Moore County, 3/5/11
While getting into the car Saturday morning, I heard an unusual sound.
I looked around and was shocked to see a female Wood Duck on my
chimney. She was making a low tremolo--I've never heard it before.
Anyway, it was quite a sight to see a duck (of any kind) on top of a
house in downtown Lynchburg. I'm not sure what she was thinking!
Laura McCall
Lynchburg, TN
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