[Bristol-Birds] Common Raven at Phipps Bend

Rick Phillips and all......

At the bottom of this message is an e-mail forward I sent Don Miller of the 
same pair of Common Ravens you reported on Jan. 28 at Phipps Bend in Hawkins 
Co., TN.  Actually, I am wondering if they are going to build a nest next month 
over on the remains of one of those big concrete bunker-type buildings that 
have ledges and whatever.  Of course they could also build a nest on the river 
bluffs just a few hundred yards away.

Chris O'Bryan and I watched those ravens at close range on Jan. 21.   Keep an 
eye on them and lets see if we can get a Hawkins County nesting record for the 
species.

I noticed that Rick took a photo of the two Common Ravens on the cooling tower 
base .  It was in his Field Sheet report of Jan. 28.  Rick wrote:  "I don't 
recall ever seeing a raven at Phipps Bend in the thirty or so years I've been 
birding there. I decided to get the scope out for a better look and maybe to 
get a record shot. When I turned around from getting the scope from the car he 
was gone. Without a trace. I looked around for a few minutes and finally 
thought I saw a little black speck through my binoculars up on one of the old 
cooling tower skeletons for the nuclear plant that never got built here. If it 
was him, he was about ten times farther away than he was before. I couldn't 
even see him with my naked eyes. I got the scope on him and just barely could 
tell what he was with the 40 power lens I had on the it." 

Be sure and read the post below I sent to Don Miller.

Let's go birding....

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Wallace Coffey 
To: Don Miller 
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Bristol-Birds] Great Blue Heronry at Phipps Bend


Don,

I don't know what kind of data you have on the Common Raven in Hawkins County.  
I failed to note in yesterday's report that Chris O'Bryan and I had two (2) at 
Phipps Bend on Friday (Jan. 21).  The birds were calling and we saw them at 
fairly close range while they were perched together atop the cooling tower base 
which stands in the open field.  They were handing something between their 
beaks which indicated to me that it was breeding behavior.

Wallace
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Don Miller 
  To: jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 4:32 PM
  Subject: Re: [Bristol-Birds] Great Blue Heronry at Phipps Bend


  Wallace,

  Thanks very much.  Keep those cards and letters  . . . I  mean bird data . . 
.  coming.

  Don

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