FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Re: low elevation Canada Warbler -- Shady Valley

["Thomas McNeil" <tsmcneil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, June 5, (during the Elizabethton Summer Bird Count), I had
"two" Canada Warblers singing along the Little Milligan boat ramp road in
Little Milligan, Carter Co., TN.  If I am not mistaken, the elevation there
is just slightly less than 2,000 feet.  I have not yet returned to see if
they are still present.

Thomas McNeil
Elizabethton, TN
tsmcneil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


> [Original Message]
> From: Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Bristol-birds <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 > Date: 6/8/2004 10:28:42 PM
> Subject: [Bristol-Birds] low elevation Canada Warbler -- Shady Valley
>
> Today, 8 June,  a Canada Warbler was heard singing at 2,260 feet
elevation along Beaverdam Stream and TN Rt. 133 in Shady Valley, Johnson
Co., TN.
> This is a very low elevation record for the species during the breeding
season in Tennessee.  I know of none lower.  
> 
> The bird was discovered by Chris O'Bryan, Ron Harrington and Wallace
Coffey while conducting a bird survey in the north-facing cove hardwood --
a riparian habitat.  It was singing from a dark, damp and cool site which
had several hemlock.
> 
> The previous low elevation record in the watershed was one seen 16 Jun
1996 by Andy Jones at 2290 ft. in a nearby yellow poplar cove hardwood of
the same gorge.
> 
> The first indication of the species moving down elevation was two birds
seen  9 May 1976 at a bog/pond in Haynes Wright's woods in Shady Valley on 
Sluder Rd., at 2940 ft. elevation by Wallace Coffey, Pat Stallings and
Daniel Jacobson. 
> 
> In the Virginia Cumberlands, just northwest of the area,  the bird has
been recorded as low as 1740 feet and in North Carolina down to 1600 feet
at Chimney Rock.
> 
> Let's go birding....
> 
> Wallace Coffey
> Bristol, TN
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Thomas McNeil
Elizabethton, TN
tsmcneil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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