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[Scott Somershoe <ssomershoe2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

Birders:
I spent Tues thru Thursday this week searching for Henslow Sparrows at Bark 
Camp Barrens WMA in Coffee County in southcentral TN.  I found about 43 
different male Henslow's across the whole WMA and some other nice things.  
Here's the short list:
 
-2 Grasshopper sparrows (one was cooperative and the trip this weekend should 
get a good look)
-Field sparrow nest (only active nest I found, although I wasn't trying to look 
for them) 
-one male NORTHERN HARRIER flying around Wed.  Seen twice at different places.  
No female, but I kept an eye out.  Do look if you are in the area.  Breeder??  
Late migrant??
-only 2 bobwhites calling on BCB
-fledgling Indigo Buntings, Field Sparrows, and Henslow Sparrows
-you spend enough time watching birds and you see how baby Field Sparrows and 
Indigo Buntings are made.
 
Thursday morning I was walking out on the grassy road and got about 10ft from a 
turkey before it flushed.  Unfortunately I didn't see her until she flew and I 
almost fell over backwards and wet myself:)  Scared the daylights out of me.  
Then immediately after the turkey flew, a female bobwhite jumped from almost 
the same spot.  Pretty sure it a bobwhite, which was totally weird. I did get a 
good, albeit stunned look, at the bird and it wasn't a poult.
 
Great crested flycatchers are building a nest in the big rusted thingee that is 
facing the pond by the barn at the main entrance.  I saw a GCFL come flying 
across the field with a huge owl/turkey body feather in its mouth.  The pair 
chattered a lot at the nest site and the female (presumed) went in the hole 
with the feather.  They must spend a LOT of time looking for those things.  
 
Apparently owl pellets are regularly found in the barn with the Barn Owl box, 
but no owls are using the box and no owls are ever seen.  Keep an eye out this 
weekend.
 
That about wraps up the goodies out there.  
 
Cheers,
  Scott Somershoe
 
State Ornithologist 
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
P.O. Box 40747
Nashville, TN 37204
615-781-6653 (o)
615-781-6654 (fax)
 
"Keeping the rubber side down" - S.G.S. 
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