[TN-Bird] Another Beautiful Bird Day
- From: "Tommy Curtis" <tcbirdwatch@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "TN-Bird Post" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 14:10:31 -0600
While we don’t enjoy being confined to the house by ice and snow and certainly
feel sympathy for those trapped on the roads, it was a beautiful birding day
here. At daylight I moved our car to the far side of the two-car carport; the
birds are so smart they learned from the last snow storm to be there before I
could move the car. I put down about two days worth of seed and before I could
get out of sight they were covering the ground. About lunch time they had
consumed that seed and so I put down more and the activity has continued all
afternoon. There are so many White-throated Sparrows we stopped counting and
Juncos and Goldfinches are everywhere. We’ve never seen more than two Towhees
in our yard but suddenly there were three males and one female in their
beautiful attire. But the highlight of the day were one of our favorite
wintertime birds – Fox Sparrows. In the last snow we were so excited to
finally see two of them at once. Today there were six under the carport at one
time and then when I looked down below the living room window a seventh was
scratching – this one with no tail feathers. Missing again are White-crowned
Sparrows, although a birding friend on the other side of town has dozens, and
the Pine Siskins we had earlier in the winter.
Tommy & Virginia Curtis
Smithville, TN
DeKalb County
Other related posts:
- » [TN-Bird] Another Beautiful Bird Day - Tommy Curtis
