Hi folks, There have been a few reports of YRWA in breeding season in the Smokies in the last few years. None have been confirmed, but at least 2 that I know of have been by birders who I believe to be very reliable, including one this year. Maybe it is something all of us could try a bit harder on next year? Charlie --- Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ed Talbott and Area Birders, > > In response to your question: "Wallace, do you have the status of > summer > Yellow-rumped Warblers in the Grayson Highlands area?" > > The breeding season status of the Yellow-rumped Warbler in the > Whitetop-Mt. > Rogers-Grayson Highlands complex is a rare and local summer > resident and, no > doubt breeding in larger numbers than we have detected in the high > country. > My records indicate it has been recorded in the Grayson Highlands > area since > 2001. There are few public records. > > We have an apparent breeding record from Grayson Highlands State > Park area: > Alan Kneide had "a family" of Yellow-rumped Warbler "evidently > breeding" > down the Grayson Virginia Highlands Horse Trail in the park last > 14-15 > August (2004). > > Yellow-rumps have been breeding in the region since the early > 1990s. The > species is expanding its southeast breeding range in spruce and fir > areas > above 4,000 feet throughout our region. It began to establish > itself at > Roan Mountain Jun-16-Jul 1993 (pair, nest, 2 young) on the North > Carolina > side. John Gerwin, of the North Carolina State Museum of Natural > Science, > and Rick Knight of Johnson City) there established the only > breeding record > south of West Virginia in the Appalachians at that time. > > The observation you and Michelle just reported is another valuable > link. > > For those who have a chance to possibly find a nest, it is usually > built on > horizontal limbs about two-thirds out from the trunk, but none at > the > outermost end. They are conspicuous from below but not from above. > They may > be expected 10 to 15 feet from the ground but possibly lower. You > might > expect mammal hair and featherws woven in the nest cup. The nest > are almost > always in evergreens such as spruce and fir (Arthur Cleveland Bent, > 1953). > > Let's go birding..... > > Wallace Coffey > Bristol, TN > ----- June 27, 2005 7:27 AM -Ed Talbott wrote ---- > > The big surprise of the day was a male Yellow-rumped Warbler in > breeding > > plumage singing from the top of a spruce > > tree that we overlooked from one of the rocky outcrops. . > .Wallace, do you > > have the status of summer Yellow-rumped Warblers in the > > Grayson Highlands area? I know they are found on Roan Mt. in > June and > > Mike Boatwright found two on Whitetop on June 28, 2004. Thanks. > > > ************************************************* > BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST > Bristol Birds Net Photo Gallery located at: > http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jwcoffeyy/album?.dir=/efd5 > > This is a regional birding list sponsored by the > Bristol Bird Club to facilitate communications > between birders and bird clubs of Southwest Virginia > and Northeast Tennessee. > -------------------------------------------------- > You are subscribed to Bristol-Birds. > To post to this mailing list, simply send an email > to: bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send > an email to bristol-birds-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with > the one word 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. > -------------------------------------------------- > Wallace Coffey, Moderator > wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > (423)764-**** > > ******************************************************************* Charlie Muise, Naturalist in Great Smoky Mountains National Park "To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST Bristol Birds Net Photo Gallery located at: http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jwcoffeyy/album?.dir=/efd5 This is a regional birding list sponsored by the Bristol Bird Club to facilitate communications between birders and bird clubs of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. -------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to Bristol-Birds. To post to this mailing list, simply send an email to: bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send an email to bristol-birds-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the one word 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. -------------------------------------------------- Wallace Coffey, Moderator wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (423)764-****