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Dogwood Feeding Frenzy

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gmcdonald2006

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gmcdonald2006

Date:

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:12:26 -0400

Hello Osprey---

Our dogwood tree had a bumper crop of berries this year and started our 
day off with a scarlet tanager and two rose-breasted grosbeaks.  
Periodic checks didn't yield anything new until 3:30 pm when an evening 
feeding frenzy began that lasted for the next two hours.

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  5
Scarlet Tanager  3
Northern Flicker  2
A.Robin   countless
Gray Catbird
N.Cardinal

Brown Thrasher
Wood Thrush
Swainson's Thrush - NEW yard bird!!!!
European Starling
Common Grackle
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  -- in the tree, but not eating the berries

In the rest of the yard:

Black-throated-green warbler
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Ruby-throated hummingbird
Pileated woodpecker
Red-bellied woodpecker
Downy woodpecker
White-breasted nuthatch
Carolina wren
Carolina chickadee
A.goldfinch
Song sparrow

Georgia McDonald   Towson, Balt Co.