FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Eurasian Collared-Dove, Barred Owl, American Redstart, Summer Tanager, Dickcissel (Greene, Hamblen, and Washington Co., TN)

[Don Miller <raincrow@xxxxxxx>]

June 4, 2005

Greene County (mostly Joachime Bible Refuge unit of Lick Creek Bottoms 
Wildlife Management Area and vicinity);
Panther Creek State Park (shore of Cherokee Lake in Hamblen County);
southern Washington County (Limestone and South Central)

I spent about four hours birding today at scattered intervals in widely 
scattered areas of Greene and two neighboring counties.  In addition to 
finding good numbers of regular summer residents, I also encountered a 
few species that deserve special mention--

Eurasian Collared-Dove (adjacent to West Greene High School, where it 
has often been seen before by numerous observers; this is the twelfth 
consecutive month in which it has been recorded);

Barred Owl (2 at Panther Creek State Park; the birds were calling back 
and forth on a high wooded ridge between the campground and the 
overlook; Nicholson's Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Tennessee shows no 
info for Hamblen County);

American Redstart (singing male in a stand of white pines at the 
intersection of Charlie Carson Road and Thompson Lane in Washington 
County; this low-elevation area in farm country along the Nolichuckey 
River is not suitable nesting habitat, so I assume that this bird was a 
late migrant);

Summer Tanager (a hard-to-find species in northeast Tennessee; I heard 3 
singing males at Panther Creek State Park);

Dickcissel (2 singing males at the intersection of Old State Route 34 
and Taylor Mill Road in Washington County, and another a few miles away 
at the intersection of Corby Bridge Road and Ross Broyles Lane; 1 
singing male at the Bible Refuge in Greene County (8th consecutive year 
for Dickcissel at this site in summer)).

Don Miller
Greeneville, TN

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