[Bristol-Birds] New summer bird species for Sullivan Co.

Area Birders:

A Savannah Sparrow was found singing on territory Tuesday (6/28), establishing 
a new breeding season species for Sullivan County, TN.

Dave Worley and I discovered the bird singing from a fence post on a hilltop 
(1620 ft. elevation) at the PowerLine Farms located on Pemberton Rd. in Holston 
Valley just off U.S. 421 hwy.  This is normally a higher elevation nesting 
species.

It is a rare summer species over most of our region.  It has expanded southward 
through the mountains into Johnson Co. since 1991. There are a handfull of 
records in Carter, Washington, Hawkins and Cocke counties in Tennessee. 

As far as I know, it occurs during the breeding season in just a few Virginia 
counties, among them Wythe, Smyth, Washington, Grasyon, Tazewell and Wise 
counties. 

If anyone has other records or distribution information please post it to this 
list.

Let's go birding......

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN

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