Walking a path through the thickets below my shop a few minutes ago, I heard "smack!" alarms. Stepping in, I found a family group of Brown Thrashers, all raising the alarm. In moments, they were joined by a group of Wood Thrushes, then a family of Blue Jays arrived in the treetops to see what the fuss was about, then there were Flickers, then Hairy Woodpeckers, then a Common Yellowthroat with a big caterpillar in his beak popped up at eye level and chimed in, then a Blue-winged Warbler appeared, then a female Hooded Warbler, and so on. Big commotion, lasted about five minutes, then everybody just melted back into the greenery. All but the little bandito, who had disposed of the caterpillar while I was turning round and round, and continued to "Tschat" and "Teek" at me all the while I remained in the vicinity. Almost like a summer daydream it seems now, but my pants legs and socks are _plastered_ with the sticky seeds of agrimony, avens, cleavers and other hitchhikers!
-Geo Geo Kloppel, Tupper Road, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
