[TN-Bird] Yard Birds

  • From: "Ella Howard" <birder3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "TN Bird List" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:33:40 -0600

Birders,
    We have been blessed with big flocks of birds over the last couple of 
months.  We easily count 45 Purple Finches on our feeders and the ground around 
with others probably nearby.  We have easily had 300 Goldfinches.  The air is 
just full of all the comings and goings.  For several days we had 25 Chipping 
Sparrows on the ground, more of those than we have seen at once before, plus a 
dozen white throats, 2 Song and one Fox Sparrow.  We have also had both 
Kinglets, a resident Phoebe who stays around when the deer come to pick up 
grain under our feeders and he seems to glean insects from them, a Hermit 
Thrush, a Brown Creeper, a few Yellow Bellied Sapsuckers, and the other 
consistent regulars.  In the last couple of weeks we have had l00 or so Robins 
and 40 Cedar Waxwings cleaning up the Privet berries along our drive and the 
road below. 
    Yesterday we had the first returning migrant which we did not particularly 
welcome - a Brown Headed cowbird male landed on a feeder.  But anyway, soon the 
others will be here.  We also enjoyed tremendously seeing the Whoopers at 
Winchester a few weeks ago.  Good birding to all.
                                                                                
                J. N. Howard
                                                                                
                 South Pittsburg, Tn.
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