Greetings TN-birders, At 7:50 AM today, I was preparing greens to cook and watching outside my kitchen window here in the Charlotte Park area of West Nashvillle (Davidson County) a few blocks east of the Cleece's Ferry Boat Ramp at the Cumberland River. Less than ten feet from the window, a giant poke berry has grown up under one of my bird feeders (Wonder how THAT seed got there?? It's under my mockingbird's favorite peanut-butter-eating perch.). Several robins, cardinals and a blue jay were enjoying the fruits of the poke when I spied a charcoal gray bird with a mulberry cap and under tail coverts moving along the deck rail toward the poke berry. Yes, Folks, it was my yard's very first CATBIRD! Although it seemed a bit shy and, perhaps, intimidated by the other birds, its hunger overcame its wariness, and it moved in for a big feed. It stayed for several minutes then flew into the far side of one of my hackberry trees from which it did not emerge to my view again. It sure was nice to have it here although momentarily. It may come back again later, but I suspect it is a migrant that just happened to spy the poke as it was flying across the area. I used to share my mulberry trees in Florida with catbirds when I was a youngster. The few robins have been feeding continuously, and they ever take an occasional "beak dip" into the grape jelly that I have in an empty orange half on the deck rail. They do seem to enjoy that as a special snack quite often. Cheers & prayers, 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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================