[TN-Bird] Re: last post of day!

Charlie,
Your story is incomplete.  Why was the male thrush singing if the snake was 
swallowing his family? Or had his family already been swallowed?  Or was his 
family in another tree and the thrush family was indicating their dislike of 
big rat snakes up in trees and just supporting aggressively all the other birds 
of the woods?

Goodness was this a tragedy or a comedy.. or just a good action event?  Great 
observation though!!!

Tess Cumbie
Buladean, NC 




----- Original Message ----- 
From: Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>
To: TN-Bird <TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:49 PM
Subject: [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"
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