[tn-bird] Displays

  • From: "Jesse Livingston" <fernj@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: "tn-bird" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 17:43:46 -0500

Saw my first RT Hummer of the season a few minutes ago.  He was putting on his 
"U" shaped come-on display over one of my apple trees.  This is the first time 
I have ever seen one of these impressive acrobatics being performed I hope he 
had an admirer other than me, namely a pretty female RT..  I would have missed 
it except that I was watching a Red-winged Blackbird putting on his own 
territorial display over the small stock pond beyond the tree.  He was high in 
the air and circling the pond with his epaulettes all ablaze.  This morning,  
he was flying from bush to bush around the pond and putting on a really 
gorgeous display. His epaulettes looked like they were 3 inches across and 
blazing red hot.  With a display like that, Red-wings don't need to have a 
pretty song to set up their territories.

Again, watch for the Periodic Cicadas which will come out of the ground this 
spring.

Jesse Livingston
Troy, TN

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