[TN-Bird] Singing again!

The morning was gorgeous and the birds were singing gloriously today in the 
Charlotte Park area of West Nashville (Davidson County) just a few blocks east 
of the Cleece's Ferry Boat Ramp on the Cumberland River.  A friend called from 
Dallas, Texas, later and told me the same phenomena was going on out there.  
It's like the cool weather made the birds think of springtime again.
Now that most all the grapes & pokeberries are gone, my mockingbirds returned 
to the peanut butter feeding post where they sat waiting for me to "produce" 
after they'd been ignoring it for several weeks.  A lovely lady ruby-throat 
was on the hummingbird feeder very early, and she appeared to be shivering in 
the morning cool just as my little lady poodle shivered when I put her outside. 
 
I don't remember ever seeing a hummer "quake" like that before, so hope she's 
not ill.  The mockingbirds, blue jays and Carolina wrens were in full 
serenade.

Later in the morning, my male poodle, Beaujolais, started barking 
vociferously, so I looked outside to find two squirrels busily copulating on he 
large 
branch of the tree closest to the deck.  Beau didn't seem to concern them a 
bit!  
Looks like we'll probably have a new crop of squirrels.  When DO squirrels 
birth their young anyway?  It doesn't seem to be the right time for them to 
mate, but there was no mistake in what these two were doing, shamelessly, right 
in 
full view.  It seems that I do recall my dad telling me the young are born in 
winter, but that was LONG ago.  More than one litter per year?  Seems like I 
get a lot of young ones.

Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN


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