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  • Seeing lots of Yellow-Rumped Warblers

    From jmcquown@j_mcquown@comcast.net to rec.birds on Tue Oct 27 17:34:55 2020
    From Newsgroup: rec.birds

    ...at the bird bath on the patio. Also lots of Carolina Chickadees
    They're competing with the Tufted Titmice for bath time. :)

    It's still very warm here in South Carolina so I don't have the seed
    feeder out yet. Plenty of foraged food available until it gets chilly.
    The birds love the bath, though.

    I'll try to get some pictures but the Warblers and the adorable little Chickadees move pretty darn quick, it's hard to capture an image.

    The odd thing about the Yellow-Rumped Warblers is they land on the
    street and stubbornly won't get out of the way! If they find something
    that might be food they just sit there. Please, tiny bird, I don't want
    to run over you. Move!

    Jill <---in Southern South Carolina
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  • From super70s@super70s@super70s.invalid to rec.birds on Thu Oct 29 19:38:03 2020
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    In article <7o0mH.332614$5_4.311703@fx40.iad>,
    jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:

    The odd thing about the Yellow-Rumped Warblers is they land on the
    street and stubbornly won't get out of the way! If they find something
    that might be food they just sit there. Please, tiny bird, I don't want
    to run over you. Move!

    Jill <---in Southern South Carolina

    Does the Myrtle Warbler get its name from your state, noticed that while googling. I didn't think any bird was named after a city except the
    Baltimore Oriole.
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  • From jmcquown@j_mcquown@comcast.net to rec.birds on Thu Oct 29 21:31:11 2020
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    On 10/29/2020 8:38 PM, super70s wrote:
    In article <7o0mH.332614$5_4.311703@fx40.iad>,
    jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:

    The odd thing about the Yellow-Rumped Warblers is they land on the
    street and stubbornly won't get out of the way! If they find something
    that might be food they just sit there. Please, tiny bird, I don't want
    to run over you. Move!

    Jill <---in Southern South Carolina

    Does the Myrtle Warbler get its name from your state, noticed that while googling. I didn't think any bird was named after a city except the
    Baltimore Oriole.

    I never heard of a Mrytle Warbler. Looking it up, I think those birds
    are much further north. What I'm seeing are yellow-rumped.

    The South Carolina state bird is the Carolina Wren:

    https://www.sciway.net/facts/sc-state-bird-carolina-wren.html

    or

    https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Carolina_Wren/id

    Those wrens are noisy little birds that love to sing. They have a
    distinctive uplifted tail look like someone painted them with white
    eye-liner.

    When it rains down here, which is frequently, they perch on the branch
    of an azalea bush at the back corner of the house and let the rain drip
    down from the upper branches. They love to take rain-baths. But in the
    heat of the summer when the bugs are out, they also take sand-baths. :)

    Jill
    Jill
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