FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Collinwood BBS (Wayne-Lawrence Cos)

[Bill Pulliam <bb551@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My first year on the Collinwood BBS, which runs from just east of the  
Natchez Trace Parkway, passes near Loretto, and ends south of  
Lawrenceburg.  I ran it yesterday (6/2/07) in odd weather: calm  
winds, and a gray mantle of Okefenokee smoke.  I've never used sky  
code "4" on my BBS forms before.  A pleasant day, bird activity was  
pretty good.  But the smoke kept the thermals from getting up before  
the end of the route, which knocked down vulture and raptor numbers.   
A sign of the times:  2 Eurasian Collared Doves, first time reported  
for this route.  Some other interesting finds were an American  
Redstart at Shoal Creek, and a single singing Dickcissel on the power  
lines among the wheat fields of southern Lawrence County.  A brief  
glimpse of a swallow that might have been a Tree Swallow would have  
been another new species for the route, but the view wasn't good  
enough to count.  If there was one this year, there will be plenty  
more in coming years probably.

Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
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