Re: New Yard Bird

[James E Wilson <toadshade@mindspring.com>]

I had a new yard bird also.  A Hermit Thrush has been visiting my birdbath
for the last two days here in Columbia.

-- James Wilson
820 1/2 Buckingham Road
Columbia, SC 29205
34N Lat 80:58 W Long
160 Feet Elevation


> From: StevePath1@aol.com
> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 23:40:56 EST
> To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
> Subject: New Yard Bird
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> As I was watching the feeders this morning, I noticed the chickadees,
> titmice and juncos all scolding something out in the marsh to the south of
> the house. At first I thought it was one of the unwelcome neighborhood cats.
> Then I thought that was in the vicinity of the owl box I put up late last
> winter. Nah, it couldn't be. Well, you never know unless you look. Yes, it
> was indeed a gray-phase Eastern Screech Owl sleeping contentedly in the
> entrance to the box oblivious to the now silent tirade of the smaller birds.
> That is yard bird species #117 and the 101st species documented in the yard
> so far in 1999. Cheers.
> 
> Steve Tracy
> Gastonia, NC
> stevepath1@aol.com