Hi folks, South Blount County 11/9/04 Today I finally cleaned out and filled our thistle feeder for the first time since probably April. Within 20 minutes there was a Pine Siskin on it! Poor thing must have just been waiting and waiting... At one point, had I the motivation to set up the camera, I would have had the siskin and an adult male Purple Finch in the same field of view, though on 2 different feeders. Also had the first 2 Brown-headed Cowbirds of the season in the yard. These were both male. Though a much maligned species, I find them quite attractive and welcome. Sparrows seem low in numbers compared to last Novemeber. Generally just a couple Song and a handful of White-throated. Charlie ===== ************************************************** Charlie Muise, Naturalist near Great Smoky Mountains National Park "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer." -Edward Abbey ************************************************** __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com =================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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================