FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Re: Evening Grosbeaks in Buchanan Co, VA (1964)

["Larry McDaniel" <larrycmcd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The date I had the 300+ Evening Grosbeaks above Hummingbird Hill and below 
Carver's Gap on Roan Mountain was November 26 1993. Life birds.
Larry McDaniel


> From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Bristol-Birds] Evening Grosbeaks in Buchanan Co, VA (1964)
> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:21:43 -0400
>
>
> Discovered in my field log a notation for Friday, Dec. 18, 1964:
>
> "Bob Quillen reported having seen
> 6 or 8 Evening Grosbeaks flying across the road along Virginia Route 80
> at Davenport.....this date."
>
> Do we have Evening Grosbeak records this far back in Buchanan
> County, VA ?  The first Evening Grosbeak for the Bristol area that winter 
> occurred
> the next day with a single bird at the feeder of Mrs. H.C. Epperson on 
> Maryland Ave.
> in Bristol Tennessee.
>
> Evening Grosbeaks began to winter in Southwest Virginia  and Northeast 
> Tennessee
> for the first time in the winter of 1945-1946, according to Fred Behrend.
>
> Mary Fern Behrend found birds 22 Nov 1945 at Milligan College, TN. A flock 
> was
> found at Abingdon, VA 26 Jan 1946 by Dr. Henry M. Stevenson, the prominent
> Florida State University ornithologist who was, in the 1940's, on the 
> faculty at
> Emory & Henry College.
>
> They were found fairly regularly at Bristol until the mid-1080s.
>
> They continued to invade Shady Valley, TN: 1989-1990,
> 1990-1991, 1993-1994, 1995-1996, 1997-1998.  There were 200 at John 
> Shumate's
> feeder in Shady 26 Dec 1993 to 1 Mar 1994. During invasions years we've had
> flocks of up to 300.
>
> Larry McDaniel was"caught" in the middle of a very large flock
> feeding in the road all around his car during a fog on his way up to 
> Carver's Gap on
> Roan Mountain in the late 1990's.
>
> I guess our latest date is one that lingered until 2 Jul 1990 in Carter Co. 
> (fide Tom McNeil).
> The peak count for the mountains of the western part of Virginia is 656 on 
> 22 Dec 1995
> in Highland County.
>
> Let's go birding.....
>
> Wallace Coffey
> Bristol, TN
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