Greetings TN Birders, A real "stage show" was just performed on my deck as a squirrel apparently got too close to my house wren's nest. The wren had it ire up in good fettle as it repeatedly chased the squirrel through the grape vine on my deck, often zapping the squirrel as brutally as possible in its behind. After watching for a few moments, I let my squirrel-hating poodle out to dispatch the critter from my deck for the time being, at least. We are in the Charlotte Park area of West Nashville, Davidson County, just a few blocks east of the Cumberland River. My yearly influx of black-poll warblers arrived on Friday, and a couple are still here. It seems that I am really on their route home, but I really don't get many migrants since the people next door took out all their trees to keep the leaves from falling into their little swimming pool. Once in a while, I still get a nice straggler that gets off course somehow. On Saturday, one of my mockingbirds accepted peanut butter right from my hand for the second time ever. I was a little slow in getting it out there that day, so the bird just "couldn't wait" for me to place the peanut butter on the feeding spot and came right on down to take it from my hand. Two others, less brave, perched close by and waited for me to deposit their food. Yesterday, I went to mail a letter in one of the boxes that are still located in the old Walmart shopping center at Charlotte Pike and Annex Avenue in West Nashville, where a small flock of rough winged swallows were flying around over the empty lot and the grassy field down below it. That shopping center is vacant now except for a couple of places. It is beginning to look a bit run down with all those empty stores, thus a lack of care. Maybe the swallows will nest in the area. A couple of years ago, rough wings were nesting over at Nashville Tech on White Bridge Road. Cheers & Prayers, Dee Thompson Nashville, TN =================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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================