FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Lewis County: Lincoln's Sparrow, other migrants

[Bill Pulliam <bb551@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A handsome Lincoln's Sparrow singing his full song from a walnut twig  
in our front yard in western Lewis County today (5/02/07) was a  
treat.  For those who are unfamiliar with it, their song reminds me  
of a House Wren that took music lessons.  Other songbird migrants are  
present, but the numbers of some seem low still.  Many boreal nesters  
are in especially short supply:  Tennessee, Magnolia, Blackpoll  
Warblers are only trickling through, and I have yet to see a  
Nashville Warbler or Philadelphia Vireo at all.  I'm hoping that they  
are not really missing but just take a look down at dawn, see our  
brown forests, and decide to keep flying in search of better  
habitat.  There are finally more signs of forest recovery (second  
spring, as it were...):  Oaks are breaking new buds and showing fresh  
green, and lightning bugs have reappeared for the first time since  
the freeze.

Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
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