[TN-Bird] last post of day!

Ok, bear with me for one more story...

Yesterday Tracey and I were walking the dogs at a local WMA when we
started to hear a heck of a ruckus - titmice, chickadees, wood
thrushes, etc.  We started looking around for an accipiter.  But a
couple more steps in the right direction allowed us to see what had
been obscured by the tree:  a very big (6 foot?) Black Rat Snake with
2 little lumps in it's belly, being attacked by a very upset pair of
Wood Thrush.  This is one of the biggest Black Rats I've seen - and
I've seen a lot of them.  And it was about 15 feet up in a skinny
little Red Maple Tree.  I was surprised how close the Wood Thrushes
got.  Being a biased male, I assumed the more vociferous of the pair,
which was attacking more aggressively, was the male.  But my
testosterone-laced pride took a beating when the more retiring bird
(the one that complained from a safer distance) began to sing.  The
female was doing all the attacking!

Good night.

Charlie

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Charlie Muise, Senior Naturalist
Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont
Townsend, TN  lat 35 deg, 38'23"  long 83 deg, 41'22"

"Up, Sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough"
 - Ben Frankline, Poor Richard's Almanac

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