FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] a good week

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     Last Saturday on the Elizabethton fall bird count I was lucky enough to 
get the opportunity to count in Shady Valley (Johnson Co.).  I was hoping to 
see some of the good birds Rick Knight had been finding there, and was not 
disappointed.  The Least Bittern was still there.  It sat by a sedge clump 
across the open water of the beaver pond, asleep, the whole time I was there.  
There were also Sora, a Sedge Wren, and Marsh Wrens around the beaver pond.  
The lower section of trail  was flooded just before the manmade dike that the 
beaver has annexed for his dam.  I waded across to the end of the dike for a 
vantage point.  Looking downstream and to the left I saw an orangey sparrow 
with unstreaked gray nape and gray central crown stripe, a Nelson's 
Sharp-tailed Sparrow, posing for my perusal.  I was reminded of the time just a 
few years ago when Howard Langridge described to me the one that he had just 
seen in just about the same spot.  I didn't see it that first time, except
  as a disappearing LBJ, and in my mind's eye with Howard's help.  Thanks for 
the lesson, Howard!
 
     I have also seen a few migrants in Greene Co. this week.
 
     Monday, 02 OCT 2006 at Clyde Austin 4-H Center
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (my FOS)
Cape May Warbler
Sharp-shinned Hawk.
 
     Tuesday, 03 OCT 2006 on Little Indian Creek Rd.
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Tennessee Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
White-eyed Vireo.
 
     Wednesday, 04 OCT 2006 on Little Indian Creek Rd.
White-throated Sparrow (my FOS)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blackburnian Warblers
Black-throated Green Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Eastern Wood-Pewee
 
Don Holt
Johnson City, TN
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