[TN-Bird] White-throated sparrow arrives; new juncos still here + more bird notes

Good Afternoon,
 
At 3:50 P.M. today, the first white-throated sparrow of the  season arrived 
at Dee's Smorgabird in the Charlotte Park section of West  Nashville.  The two 
juncos that arrived yesterday are still here. All are  merrily feeding away 
along with the usual mourning doves, chickadees, titmice,  cardinals, blue 
jays, 
Carolina wrens, etc.  The Eurasian collared dove has  not been here during 
the week of rain.  It first came every day for six  days, took a week's hiatus, 
returned for two days and has been gone for another  week.  Maybe it "rams 
around" like the smooth-billed anis used to do to me  in Florida.  They were 
very 
irregular in their visits to my yard down  there, so I could never tell 
birders when to come over and look at  them.   My Florida scrub jays were very 
dependable.  All I had to  do was walk outside with a handful of red peanuts, 
squawk "scra-ack" at them,  and they'd come in, perch on my hand and take the 
peanuts to bury them in my  neighbor's sandy flower beds, then come back for 
more. 
 With all the photos  that were taken of those birds on my hand, no one ever 
sent a photo to me!   I was always so excited to show them off to people that 
I forgot to ask anyone  to send a copy to me  .  Here, I can depend on my 
bossy  mockingbirds to come to my call of "C'Mon, Boss," and they fly right in 
to 
get  their peanut butter or jelly.  One of them became tame enough to eat from 
 my hand a couple of summers ago, but I stopped encouraging that.  I didn't  
want it to become TOO trusting of people.
 
So much for my "ramblings."  Just LOVE having the birds come for their  meals!
 
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN


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