[TN-Bird] Re: Scarlet Tanager + red-b nuthatch, creeper & y.b. sap

From: Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx
To: wardd9@xxxxxxxxx, tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 03:00:33 EST
Happy New Year Birders,
 
Nita's report somewhat "jarred" my senses.  Here in the Charlotte  Park 
area of West Nashville late Saturday afternoon, I was rather sure I saw a  
female scarlet tanager in the hackberry tree behind my deck.  It left too  
quickly for me to photograph her, so I muttered "couldn't be" to myself and  
dismissed the idea.  Maybe it was after all!
 
On Sunday around noon, I was replenishing "Dee's Smorgabird," and heard the 
 unmistakable call of a red-breasted nuthatch, looked around and saw a real 
 beauty working down the trunk of one of my three pine trees in the yard.   
In past years, I have had one "work" those trees on several  occasions.
 
Also, around 2 PM on Sunday, a brown creeper was creeping up the same  
hackberry that the tanager (?) was on..  Tarcila Fox and I counted one  in a 
neighbor's tree next door for Nashville's CBC.  I've  seen one several times 
since. 
 
A little while after 2 PM on Sunday, I was sitting at my computer  just 
inside the French doors to the deck when a male yellow-bellied  sapsucker 
perched low on that hackberry in brilliant sunshine.  He  worked that tree all 
the way to the top before he flew off to the southeast  toward the WSMV tower 
which is about ten blocks away "as the crow  (or sapsucker) flies."  That is 
one busy hackberry and in the perfect  spot to watch from my computer chair.
 
Sunday was a great "armchair birding day" for me, getting 2010 off to  a 
super start!
 
Dee Thompson
Nashville, Davidson County, TN 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 1/3/2010 7:52:46 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
wardd9@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Nita  Heilman would like to report that she observed a female or   immature
Scarlet Tanager twice at her feeder in Clarksville,TN. (Montgomery  County)
on December 31 at 3:00.

Nita Heilman
Clarksville,Tennessee
Montgomery  County




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