FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Re: Yellowlegs

[K Dean EDWARDS <kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The follow-up explanation of this for TN-birds is that
while I was out walking the dog just after midnight
last night (or this morning depending on your point of
view), I was listening to a large number of migrants
calling as they passed overhead.  Mostly high-pitched
sparrow-like flight calls, averaging about 1 every
5-10 seconds.  This is the most I've heard passing
over since mid October when the last of the thrushes
came through.

Then I heard a Greater Yellowlegs call about 5 times
over the course of about 1 minute as it apparently
circled and then flew off as the last call was very
distant.  Or maybe it was 5 different birds calling as
they passed roughly the same spot.

Either way, a new yard bird.

Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN


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