FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] low elevation Canada Warbler -- Shady Valley

["Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Today, 8 June,  a Canada Warbler was heard singing at 2,260 feet elevation 
along Beaverdam Stream and TN Rt. 133 in Shady Valley, Johnson Co., TN.
This is a very low elevation record for the species during the breeding season 
in Tennessee.  I know of none lower.  If you have a lower elevation record for 
the state, please let me know.

The bird was discovered by Chris O'Bryan, Ron Harrington and Wallace Coffey 
while conducting a bird survey in the north-facing cove hardwood -- a riparian 
habitat.  It was singing from a dark, damp and cool site which had several 
hemlocks.

The previous low elevation record in the watershed was one seen 16 Jun 1996 by 
Andy Jones at 2290 ft. in a nearby yellow poplar cove hardwood of the same 
gorge.

The first indication of the species moving down elevation was two birds seen  9 
May 1976 at a bog/pond in Haynes Wright's woods in Shady Valley on  Sluder Rd., 
at 2940 ft. elevation by Wallace Coffey, Pat Stallings and Daniel Jacobson. 

In the Virginia Cumberlands, just northwest of the area,  the bird has been 
recorded as low as 1740 feet and in North Carolina down to 1600 feet at Chimney 
Rock.

Let's go birding....

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN






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