[TN-Bird] Back Home to Backyard Birds

From: eyesew@xxxxxxxxx (Virginia Curtis)
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:23:02 -0600
We just returned from a month of great birding with Red & Louise Gambill
in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.  This was our second extended stay
and we had 190 birds including these 5 lifers:  Social Flycatcher,
Gray-crowned Yellowthroat, Smith's and McCowns Longspurs and the best of
all - Greater Flamingo.  That flamingo means we don't have to make a
fourth trip through the hordes of mosquitos on Snake Bight Trail in the
Everglades trying to find it.  

But it is great to be back to our backyard birds.  In addition to the
usual ones, we have male and female Purple Finches, a Hairy Woodpecker
which has been rare in our yard for two years, and a White-crowned
Sparrow which has only been a one-day migrant for two years also but
this one has now stayed since December.  We've been reading the reports
about the Short-eared Owls while away and hope to go see them tomorrow.  
Terry Witt's post about the Common Ground Dove caused us to reconsider
what we dismissed as unlikely yesterday morning.  On our drive from
Smithville to Murfreesboro to attend our church two small doves were
sitting in the middle of the road and flew up so late I almost hit them.
Having just seen several of these doves in the Valley, I immediately
said to Virginia those were Common Ground Doves.  Then we decided that
was very unlikely here and dismissed them.  Now we wonder.  

Tommy & Virginia Curtis
Smithville, Tennessee
DeKalb County

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