[TN-Bird] Cardinals molting + a hackberry comment & question

From: Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:37:04 EDT
Greetings Birders,
 
Here in the Charlotte Park area of West Nashville, my molting cardinals are  
putting on a sort of unusual show.  The feathers that are molting from  their 
underparts are being very slow to drop off, and the birds look as if they  are 
wearing "droopy drawers" or trousers down around their legs.   Several of the 
birds have been showing this "eccentricity" for several  days.  Since I have 
so many cardinals, it may be different birds every day  or so.  They sort of 
remind me of photos I've see of some bird species that  actually DO have 
feathers on their legs.  We used to have some little  chickens that did.
 
The limb of my hackberry tree right behind the deck, a favorite perch for  my 
Cooper's hawks and my hummingbirds, seems to be dead.  It and several  other 
nearby limbs are losing their bark and dying.  It looks as if the  squirrels 
may be stripping the bark, or it may be infested with some kind of  insect.  I 
walked over to the tree yesterday, when I returned from the  doctor's, and 
found a streak from that major limb down the trunk to the ground  as if 
lightening may have struck it.  It just doesn't look like the "gash"  that I've 
noticed 
from lightning strikes before.  I didn't see any insect  activity, and the 
bark on the trunk is not coming off.  That's just on the  upper limbs of the 
big 
branch.  Any thoughts?
 
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN


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