[TN-Bird] Barred owls & a (last?) hummer

From: Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:22:18 EDT
Hello Birders.
 
Right around 4 P.M. today, a ruby-throated hummingbird flew across my deck  
here in the Charlotte Park section of West Nashville, Davidson County.  She 
 did not stop at my feeder as she "barreled" west toward the Cumberland  
River.
 
Just before dark, I heard two barred owls "fire up" nearby.  I stepped  out 
on my deck and saw one in a near-leafless tree about a block away.   When 
the other one answered, it was in a tree in my back yard.  It was such  a 
thrill.  It's been about 15 years since I had a barred in my yard.   The great 
horneds come up from the Cumberland now and then to "mouse" on my deck  as 
does a little screech owl.
 
By the way, a chipmunk has been greedily stashing bird seed for the  
winter.  It has been making countless trips to the feed on the deck floor,  
filling its cheeks with food and scurrying off to its cache, then returning  
almost as fast as it went.   It has been doing this from dawn to dusk  for over 
a 
week.  From the way it is "hoarding," I think we may be in for a  ROUGH 
winter.  Freeze warnings are out for Nashville tonight according to  WSMV 
weather reports.  I managed to get my peace lillies inside!
 
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN 

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