FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Re: [TN-Bird] NOrteast TEnnessee (NOTE) FOS Birds

[Whoopinwiller@xxxxxxx]

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The TWRA access area located between Musick's Campground and Painter Creek 
Boat Dock at South Holston Lake in Sullivan County has not produced Prairie 
Warblers for me in the past three or four years. This early migrant was the 
first. 
Perhaps habitat succession has caused the site to no longer be active or it 
is active and I have missed the birds!

The observation of a single male Prairie Warbler was recorded on Sunday, 
April 9, 2006, which preceded the early date documented in Rick Knight's, The 
Birds of Northeast Tennessee, An Annotated Checklist, 1994, by four days (April 
13).

Rick's book defines Northeast Tennessee as Carter and surrounding counties to 
include: Sullivan, Johnson, Washington, and Unicoi. This is the jurisdiction 
where many local birders keep year lists. This area is also known by the 
"NOTE" area by coupling Rick's definition and bird banding abbreviation style 
of 
using, at times, the first two letters of each of two words to coin a 
standardization of sorts in abbreviations. Thus, the capital letters in the 
subject line 
of this thread.

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'Til we bird again
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Rack Cross
Blountville, TN