[TN-Bird] A cold day
- From: Oligobird@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:19:21 EST
As we expected on a cold day, the birds were busy. The pileated showed up at
the suet an hour early. The house and purple finches were up to their elbows
on the flat feeder among some of the more than fifty goldfinch in the yard. All
27 usual species were here. The coopers hawk scattered everyone several
times, only one goldfinch tried to flee via the windows and survived to tell
the
tale. The brown headed cowbird females consorted with the female redwing
blackbirds with only a single male in the group. The male redwings formed a
separate
flock, both parties coming and going separately. A fine red tailed hawk
searched the ground beneath several tree boughs, being sent on from each by the
jays. There must have been 30 cardinals, many more white throated sparrows. The
bluebirds returned after an absence to crowd into the nest box. Everyone fed
until low light when a sudden high freezing wind sent everyone to shelter all
at
once. We need more feed tomorrow, so much was used. Ralph and Kay Brinkhurst,
Lebanon, Wilson Co.
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