[TN-Bird] Nutsy creeper, mocks & screech

From: Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 14:52:42 EST
This morning, as I was making coffee around 6:30, I looked out to see "my" 
brown creeper creeping up the feeder pole to the peanut butter spread which 
it began to eat vociferously as if totally starved to insanity!  After the 
little thing sated itself, it flew back to its favorite tree in the back yard 
which is ringed with sapsucker holes.  I really have not been aware that 
creepers were feeder birds, much less peanut butter, bit I guess it figures.  
I rarely see the bird, but about once every three days or so, I happen to 
notice it on the same tree, foraging from bottom to top just as it did on 
Nashville's count day when Tarcila Fox and I saw it for our count list.  
Since this is the first year I have ever had one in the yard, I am not too 
familiar with the behavior of this species as a yard bird.

Later, I cleaned the scrapings from a Christmas cake plate from which I had 
served a Kane cake I'd made.  I decided to put those scrapings out for the 
birds to see if they would like them.  Lane cake frosting is made with 
raisins, pecans, coconut, sugar, egg yolks and bourbon which has had the 
alcohol cooked out, so I do not think there would be anything to harm my 
"babies" on the feeder.  The two bosses mockingbird immediately feasted as 
did the Carolina wrens.  Since I did not have much left to put out there, 
they ate it all before the starlings got a chance.  They are all back to 
eating peanut butter now, and all seems well.  The bosses are up to their old 
trick of finding the window for whatever room I am in and letting me know 
when the peanut butter has run out!  Golleee, can they ever be demanding!

Just before daylight, a screech owl "whinnied" twice from somewhere in a yard 
across the street when I stepped outside my front door.  Sometimes I have had 
one in the holly "tree" outside my bedroom window.  

Dee Thompson
Nashville
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[TN-Bird] Nutsy creeper, mocks & screech

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