Blount County April 1, 2005 Hi folks, I'm staying home with a sick baby today, so I'm sticking my head out the window as much as possible. I've seen: - a Blue Jay feeding another Blue Jay which is sitting on an apparent partial nest in the same spot of a tree where they were unsuccessful last year. - a group of 5-6 Brown-headed Cowbirds chasing 2 females around all morning - a pair of Carolina Chickadees carrying nesting material into (and out of) a hole in the post of a grapevine - a pair of Eastern Bluebirds carrying nesting material into a bluebird box. - a male Red-bellied Woodpecker drumming on the side of the house and the side of my work shop. I hope that means we'll have a bunch of baby birds around this year. Charlie ******************************************************************* Charlie Muise, Naturalist in Great Smoky Mountains National Park "To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light." - Ralph Waldo Emerson __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ =================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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================