FUN PHOEBE FACT - We had a great birding year watching Phoebes hunt for and feed two hatches of chicks this summer. I just read that John James Audubon was the first to tag a bird and that he did it in 1804 tagging Eastern Phoebes nesting on his property. He attached thin, silver bands on the legs of several phoebes and the following year the phoebes returned - leg bands intact. We are expecting "our" Phoebes to leave on migration soon - and Audubon's banding experiment lets us hope we'll see them back next Spring.