[TN-Bird] Some bird notes, etc.
- From: Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 14:42:25 EST
Yesterday afternoon, as I walked out my door to replenish the bird feeders,
my poodles frightened a squirrel off the tube feeder. The squirrel sprung onto
the brick wall & headed in my direction. As I stepped back toward the door,
the squirrel made a flying leap & landed on the top of my head which it used
as a springboard to leap over to the deck rail about six feet away. The force
with which it dug into my skull with its hind feet to make that leap sure
proved how they can manage to jump so far! My scalp was a little tender after
his
leap, but I don't think it broke my thick old skull skin. I think it gave me
a slight "blunt force trauma AKA bruise" on my head. I did come inside and
douse alcohol on top of my head where it made contact just to sterilize the
"germs" it may have had on its body. One never knows what these little
"critters"
might be "carrying," so I suspect it pays to be cautious.
Right now, I have a dozen mourning doves diligently dining on my deck along
with a jumble of juncos and a couple of white throats. Four cedar waxwings
were in a tree top out back early today, and I have a big bunch of robins that
came in overnight.
Someone told me that some juvenile humans have been "killing birds" up at the
Hill's Grocery on Charlotte Pike at Annex/Hillwood. Of course, this someone
does not know who they are. I was up at Hill's a little earlier, and I did
find one dead house sparrow which had been stomped to smithereens. Whether the
stomping was the cause of death or an act performed afterwards is not known.
The little sparrows up there are so used to people that they have heretofore
not known fear that much. Of course, I am not going to be too sad about one
less house sparrow in this world, but the brutality of the stomping causes
concern to me about the mental health of the individual who did the stomping.
Guess that 8 years of working as a librarian in juvenile corrections gave me a
different perspective on cruelty among some of the youth today. Some of it is
pretty chilling.
Yesterday, I spotted one lone loggerhead shrike right beside Charlotte Pike
across the street from where Westboro Drive intersects at the light. There is
an auto parts store directly across, and the bird flew down from a small
tree/bush to the ground in a little area just east of where their driveway
enters
Charlotte Pike at that same light. It got a bug or something and flew back up
into the tree/bush where it appeared to start devouring its catch. About that
time, the light changed and I had to move on as I had a "convoy" on my
backside waiting to get through the light.
Cheers & prayers for some great birding,
Dee Thompson
(West) Nashville, TN Charlotte Park near the old Cleece's Ferry ramp.
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