FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Timberdoodles, Snipe and More in Shady Valley, TN

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On Tuesday, March 11, Tess Cumbie, Buladean, N.C.; Reece Jamerson, Johnson 
City; Howard Langridge, Elizabethton; and Bryan Stevens, Hampton; visited Shady 
Valley in Johnson County.

From about 5:20-6:20 p.m., they birded at Quarry Bog, seeing lots of Red-winged 
Blackbirds, Eastern Meadowlarks and Song Sparrows. They also flushed about a 
dozen or so Common Snipe. Other birds included a Great Blue Heron, Swamp 
Sparrow, three Common Grackles, a Wood Duck and a flock of American Robins.

They went to Orchard Bog to settle in before twilight and hope for a show by 
the American Woodcocks. Before the timberdoodles began their show, several Wood 
Ducks flew overhead and a flock of eight Canada Geese splashed down in the bog. 

At least two American Woodcocks began making their "peent" calls shortly before 
7 p.m. Then one of the timberdoodles took to the air, giving a fine show in his 
display flight. The timberdoodles seemed to give anywhere between 18 to 34 
"peent" calls before they would take to the air in a display that also let us 
hear the "twittering" feathers as they ascended and descended.

When it got too dark to really see their flights, we left, but the 
timberdoodles were still "peenting" in the bog.

Bryan Stevens,
Hampton, TN
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