FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Dunlin, Willow Flycatcher, etc. (Greene Co., TN)

["Donald Miller" <pandion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

May 23, 2007

western Greene County--Wal-Mart Distribution Center (WMDC), etc.

David Kirschke and I checked a few good spots in the western end of Greene 
County this evening and found a sizable number of species, including a good 
number of summer residents and transients.  A partial list includes:

Wood Duck (6)
Blue-winged Teal (WMDC)
Northern Bobwhite (3)
Little Blue Heron (adult WMDC)
Green Heron (2 WMDC)
Semipalmated Plover (WMDC)
Solitary Sandpiper (2 WMDC)
Spotted Sandpiper (WMDC)
Dunlin (Baughard Hill Road)
Eurasian Collared-Dove (Highway 11-E approximately 0.5 mile east of West Greene 
High School)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Willow Flycatcher (Highway 348 opposite the Lick Creek Bottoms Wildlife 
Management Area unit in Beulah community)
Eastern Kingbird (4)
Purple Martin (9)
Tree Swallow (3)
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (4)
Barn Swallow (16)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Brown Thrasher
Common Yellowthroat (2)
Yellow-breasted Chat (2)
Chipping Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Blue Grosbeak (2)
Indigo Bunting (14)
Orchard Oriole

Passerine numbers seem low for this time of year.  This is the impression that 
I have had since early April, and recent birding trips tend to bear this out.  
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher and Indigo Bunting, normally quite abundant in western 
Greene County, have consistently been scarcer this spring, as have a number of 
other species.  

Don Miller
Greeneville, Greene Co., TN

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