[TN-Bird] Re: Possible nesting shrikes (Robertson Co.)

In a message dated 3/27/2012 9:51:44 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
tonylance@xxxxxxx writes:

I did a  quick drive this morning to check on a pair of shrikes that I've 
been keeping  an eye on. I've seen them at the same place for about a month 
now, and I saw  one again this morning. Normally I see a single bird, but a 
couple of times  I've seen two, and they're always near a large cedar tree 
which makes me  suspect they're nesting. More than once I've watched one fly 
in and out of the  tree, but I can't see a nest because the branches and 
foliage are too  thick.
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Several  years ago, when a friend used to live near Adairsville, KY, I used 
to drive to  Springfield in Robertson County then up to Adairsville to 
visit.   Almost every time, I would see one or two shrikes near the last 
crossroad just  south of where the highway enters Kentucky, crosses the Red 
River 
and  into "town."  I was always thrilled with that.  I like shrikes and  very 
seldom see them any more.  Once in a great while, I saw them in  Bell's 
Bend across the Cumberland River from my house in Nashville's Charlotte  Park.  
Haven't been over there much since I became disabled and they took  my 
beloved Cleece's Ferry out of service quite a few years ago!  Birding  grounds 
in Bell's Bend which WERE a mile or so from home are now 12-18 miles  by car. 
 Of course, the developers, et al,  want an ecologically  impractical 
BRIDGE across there to Bell's Bend.  They are bursting to  make Bell's Bend 
into 
another Cool Springs Shopping Complex and collect lots  more taxes on it. 
No, no, no!!!!!!!!!!!!!  It's a wildlife paradise,  so I'd love to see it 
become another national park or wildlife  sanctuary!!!!!   The people who 
already live there could be  "grandfathered in" and keep their farms while 
being 
protected from any more  development.  
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN
Davidson County
Nashville, TN

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