Linda, We have four different woodpeckers coming to our yard to feed and bathe in very citified east Memphis. We got lots of trees, two bird baths, suet in a wire apparatus and a metal cylinder of bread-crumbs, grapevines, and a compost heap that birds like... We have three Downy Woodpeckers, a male, a female, and a youngster that feed on our suet. Two different Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers clamp sideways onto the rim of our bird bath, to drink. There are several Red-Bellied Woodpeckers who visit the cylinder regularly for bread crumbs. And then we have two large Yellow-Shafted Northern Flickers who peck the ground under my grapevines. All this in the middle of a bustling citified city... murder capital of this and that... Robert Fowler Shelby County "Linda Fippin" <ljfippin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote : > Yesterday I had a Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker in the Bradford > pear near my patio. Being a recent transplant from CA, I > don't know if this is of any particular note, though a YBSA > would certainly bring out the rarity-seekers among my CA > birding friends! This brings the number of species I've seen > at my feeders or around my very suburban Knoxville apartment > patio up to 15, which seems good for such a citified environment. =================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 _____________________________________________________________