Hello once more from the Charlotte Park area of West Nashville a few blocks east of the old Cleece's Ferry landing and boat ramp on the Cumberland River just across from rural Bell's Bend. While catching an early & fast bite of dinner before rushing to a late lasting event last night, I had TWO full grown male Brewer's blackbirds and one gorgeous red-winged blackbird feeding together at my "smorgabird" on the deck. They fed for about five minutes before the red-wing took off toward the river. Within seconds, both Brewer's followed the same path as the red-wing. No sooner had they cleared the deck before twelve male common grackles came in for a landing accompanied by five male cowbirds. As in the case of the lone Brewer's blackbird I reported on March 21st, these birds AND the red-wing do not seem to wish to associate much WITH the grackles. I DO seem to remember seeing them in pretty close association at Sacajawea just north of Bismarck, ND, back in the 70's. Maybe they just get "picky" in migration. This morning, I heard then saw red-wings in my tree tops as I placed food on the deck, but they never came down to eat. They all flew off toward the river, and I did not see any Brewer's among them. Since I awoke MUCH later than usual (having been out somewhat late last night), perhaps they were the ones who had helped finish off all the food I had put out last night when I came home. Most of my day was spent working on my container gardens on the deck, so did not have many birds coming around with me out there. My mockingbirds would fly over and "beg" when the peanut butter and grape jelly supply was depleted. My ONE white-throated sparrow was singing musically, and he is looking brilliant. Yesterday's lone junco did not come over today, so it may have migrated. All the rest of the usual suspects hit the deck as soon as I went inside to fix lunch and disappeared when I went back to the deck, then came back when I finished my planting for the afternoon. Happy birding, 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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================