Greetings and Happy Thanksgiving TN-birders from my home here in the Charlotte Park section of West Nashville, Davidson County, just a few blocks east of the old Cleece's Ferry landing which is on the Cumberland River. At approximately 7:30 this morning, I arrived back at home from an EARLY morning shopping spree. As I started to unlock the downstairs door while laden with heavy packages of cleaning supplies, I heard the familiar sound of a red-breasted nuthatch. As happens quite often with them, it sounded REALLY close as if in the nearest tree which is a dead ash. I searched the ash then looked back a little farther and saw it climbing up a pine tree. I didn't tarry long after making sure it was a red-breasted as my packages were heavy, and my back was breaking. By the time I unloaded in the basement and got upstairs unladen to look, it was no longer there to be seen or heard. Gosh, I'm just hoping and praying that it (they) will hang around for Christmas count. I am right on the very edge just inside the count circle. Ooops, I THINK I failed to mention the sapsucker that was lurking near the bottom of the holly tree outside my bedroom window at about 7:50 on Sunday morning when I let the shade up to allow the outside to creep inside. He fiddled around down there, then flew to my water maple tree in the front yard and seemingly started sucking some sap from it. Everyone have a fine Thanksgiving. I plan to spend much of the day at my usual Thursday volunteer duty at the St. Thomas Emergency Room. Happy birding, Dee Thompson Nashville, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- 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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================