[TN-Bird] [Fwd: Aephids, yum: clothespins, ho-hum: owl/possum!]
- From: Raincrow <raincrow@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: TNbird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:41:00 -0400
Hi Dee
An old acquaintence, an old-timey sawyer, watched a red-tailed hawk take
one of his full-grown and very "battle-seasoned" tomcats, a 10 pounder
at least. If a red-tail can take a fully grown adult tom, I imagine (but
don't know for sure) that a Great horned can take whatever size of cat
it pleases, and the anecdotes I have heard about GH owls and cats
through the years support my supposition, but they are indeed just
anecdotes.
Liz Singley
Kingston, TN
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Subject: [TN-Bird] Aephids, yum: clothespins, ho-hum: owl/possum!
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 18:01:26 EDT
From: Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx
Reply-To: Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Greetings from the Charlotte Park area of West Nashville just east of
the old
Cleece's Ferry which was on the Cumberland River.
About an hour ago, a migrating Cape May warbler appeared at the tender
end of
a grape vine which was wrapped around a perchable wire. Our little bird
proceeded to devour the yummy aphids which were sucking the juices out
of the
forming grape leaves. It was a male bird that perched in the brilliant
light at
just the proper angle for me to see its rufous around the eye and the
yellow on
its neck.
For a couple of days, I have noticed my hummingbirds "checking out" some
RED
clothespins which I have clipped to some clothes hangers outside the
French
doors to the deck. (I use them for hanging freshly washed "zip-loc"
baggies
which I reuse) I think the hummers wonder if these clothespins are a
new kind of
feeder. They perch on the hanger, quickly investigate the RED pins
only,
they fly over to join the crowd at the hummingbird feeder with its RED
base.
It's beginning to look like Atlanta International with all the little
jet-hummers
zipping around or waiting in line for their turns at the "three-holer"
feeder.
Regarding that owl that Charlie said may have been REALLY looking at
that
possum, I can tell you that if that owl was eyeing the possum, he was
looking at
about 7 to 8 pounds of BIG possum! I know the great horned is BIG, but
I
rather doubt that he could carry that much weight. I also doubt that it
planned
to eat the possum on my deck, but, who knows? Maybe that was its plan.
A
great horned did drop about a 3 pound rabbit in front of my car out in
Cockrill
Bend one night although I think my car lights may have blinded him
rather that
the weight of a wriggley rabbit causing it too lose its grasp.
I DID finally have a lone baby cardinal come to dine day before
yesterday.
It was good to see a little "black beak" for a change!
Cheers & prayers,
Dee
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