Happy New Year Birders, As I finish off my New Year's Day luncheon champagne here in the Charlotte Park Section of West Nashville about four blocks east of the Cleece's Ferry Boat Ramp that is on the Cumberland River, I offer you a toast to a great 2005 and a quick bird report. My male yellow-bellied sapsucker was back sucking up some nice sap from the holes he drilled in my holly bush/tree a couple of weeks ago. Apparently, he wasn't satisfied, because he went to work drilling some more holes. It is interesting to watch as he always starts a new "patch" from the bottom left, drills across from left to right, moves up to start another row and does it right to left. At the end of that row, he goes up a row and starts off back from left to right again. He was definitely doing some New Year's Day "sap sucking," but he also took time to create a batch of new holes. A little while after he left, I looked down into the holly from my bedroom window only to see one of these damnable squirrels down there LICKING my sapsucker's sap holes!!!!!!!!!! I think it's time I hosted a "squirrel removal squad party" over here. 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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================