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["Mark Allen Greene" <magreene@xxxxxxxx>]

Saturday, 4 May 2002

Lauderdale, Dyer, Lake, and Obion Counties

Jeff Wilson had a couple of good stops for warblers in northern Lauderdale
County while driving up to the state TOS spring meeting so on Saturday
morning Jeff, Mike Todd, and I decided to start down that way and see what
we could find.  What we would find would be nothing short of amazing.  I'll
leave the specifics for Jeff to tell as only he can but at the end of the
day we ended up with an amazing 32 species of warblers and a total of 151
species without really even pushing it at all the entire day!  We had all
the regular warblers that you would expect to get in Tennessee with the
exception of Orange-crowned, Prairie, Mourning, and Connecticut.  It's
probably just a tad bit early for Mourning and Connecticut and
Orange-crowned can be a pretty tough bird to find when you're actually
looking for it.  Had we not have been going to the meeting and banquet last
night we could have easilt have driven 40-50 miles to the east and picked up
Prairie Warbler in eastern Weakly County for number 33!  Prairie Warbler
only occurs as a rare migrant in northwest Tennessee but is a regular
breeder just 40-50 miles to the east.  All those warblers and only one
species, Cerulean, came from Walnut Log Road!  28 species were gotten before
noon (27 of those on Key Corner Road in Lauderedale County).  We picked up a
Palm along the levee on our way back north.  Made a quick stop in Lake
County for Swainson's, then trucked up to Walnut Log for Cerulean (picking
up an American Bittern and a Peregrine along the way at Long Point I might
add!), then as we were coming back south along the east side of the lake we
stopped at a single row of large pine trees and picked up 2 Pine Warblers
for our 32nd species of warbler!

All those warblers plus a late Sandhill Crane, a calling Red-breasted
Nuthatch, and many other highlights had us thinking we should have done a
big day!  Chris & Jay were planning on running one today so it will be
interesting to see what they get.  I'll let Jeff fill in the specifics on
our great day and I look forward to Chris & Jay's report on their day.

Good birding,

Mark Greene
Trenton, TN

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