[TN-Bird] homestead bird bulletin: FOS WIPI, etc.

From: Michael Sledjeski <mtnsylva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 11:54:21 -0500
  I heard  my first  whip-poor-will this morning at about 6:00 AM; a  
bit late in the season - last year it was 3/28, earliest this  
millenium was 3/23/03, latest was 4/6/06.  Of course  there's always  
the possibility that we slept through the first solitary calls.   
Later in the spring there have been as many as 5 at a time calling   
at dusk.  >>>  The blue-headed vireo record is more consistent: 3/26  
this year, 3/25 to 3/29 since 2001.  >>>  We're still seeing a  busy  
pair of red-breasted nuthatches at the feeders, along with some late  
dark-eyed juncos,  pine siskins and white-throated sparrows.  A  
female pine warbler is gathering  lint from the dryer, and we  
encountered a fearless ruffed grouse along the  driveway for the  
third time yesterday.  >>>  A great blue heron was standing in the  
middle of our little bluegill/catfish pond on Thursday.  Great blues  
have a reputation for drastically reducing fish populations, so I  
shouted that they were our fish and "you can go down to the creek or  
the river and catch all you need!"  He flew off down the road,  
periodically looking back at me as I continued my tirade.  That's the  
fourth time in as many years that I've used that technique,  based on  
a native American  practice.  It seems to work; they don't return to  
our pond, but I see herons regularly  down at the neighbor's, where  
the fish are puny and few.

Michael Sledjeski
Del Rio TN
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