Happy New Year, Good afternoon on a sunny but windy and soon-to-be-COLD Charlotte Park area of West Nashville New Year's Day! It is just lovely to look outside and see all the birds feeding at Dee's "Smorgabird" where they are filling up with "fuel" to get them through the 15 degree temperature that is predicted for daylight tomorrow. The wind is pretty biting, getting ready to blow the cold front to us. My flocks of birds just left as one group, so I knew a hawk had come into the neighborhood. In mere seconds, I saw a beautiful adult Cooper's hawk fly in from the back and perch on a tree just behind my deck. I got a couple of photos of it before it gave up on the empty deck and left. The birds haven't come back, and I saw the hawk fly past the house again a few minutes. It's HUNGRY and is looking for a nice mourning dove or rock pigeon for its dinner. My feeder birds just returned, and the back yard trees are teeming with chickadees again. It wouldn't surprise me to find that "Coop" is still hanging around nearby in hiding. My first birds of 2008 were white-throated sparrows and cardinals that were on the deck to feed at daybreak. It has been REALLY busy out there all day! I just replenished all the food so that my "guests" can fill up for the cold night ahead. I put plenty of peanut butter on apple halves in the suet feeder for my bossy mockingbirds and all the other birds that enjoy peanut butter. Here's wishing you lots of happy and successful birding in 2008. Dee Thompson Nashville, TN **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________