Good Afternoon, At 3:50 P.M. today, the first white-throated sparrow of the season arrived at Dee's Smorgabird in the Charlotte Park section of West Nashville. The two juncos that arrived yesterday are still here. All are merrily feeding away along with the usual mourning doves, chickadees, titmice, cardinals, blue jays, Carolina wrens, etc. The Eurasian collared dove has not been here during the week of rain. It first came every day for six days, took a week's hiatus, returned for two days and has been gone for another week. Maybe it "rams around" like the smooth-billed anis used to do to me in Florida. They were very irregular in their visits to my yard down there, so I could never tell birders when to come over and look at them. My Florida scrub jays were very dependable. All I had to do was walk outside with a handful of red peanuts, squawk "scra-ack" at them, and they'd come in, perch on my hand and take the peanuts to bury them in my neighbor's sandy flower beds, then come back for more. With all the photos that were taken of those birds on my hand, no one ever sent a photo to me! I was always so excited to show them off to people that I forgot to ask anyone to send a copy to me . Here, I can depend on my bossy mockingbirds to come to my call of "C'Mon, Boss," and they fly right in to get their peanut butter or jelly. One of them became tame enough to eat from my hand a couple of summers ago, but I stopped encouraging that. I didn't want it to become TOO trusting of people. So much for my "ramblings." Just LOVE having the birds come for their meals! Dee Thompson Nashville, TN ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________