[TN-Bird] Brewer's Blackbird, Horned Lark, etc. (Greene Co., TN)

From: "Donald Miller" <pandion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "TN-Bird" <TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:49:25 -0500
January 14, 2007
Greene County--McDonald, Midway, and nearby areas 

I spent a little over two hours this morning in the western portion of the 
county, looking mainly for Icterids and raptors.  A few goodies turned up, as 
is nearly always the case when I bird this area.  Here's a list of the 
highlights:

Snow Goose (juvenile on Highway 340 at Turner Lane, the same bird I reported on 
January 11)
Great Egret (Wal-Mart Distribution Center, fourth pond; the bird has been here 
since fall)
American Kestrel (15, plus 2 near Tusculum later in the day, for a total of 17)
Ring-billed Gull (458+ on Highway 340)
Red-headed Woodpecker (Green Road 0.4 mile from Highway 348)
Horned Lark (6 on Highway 340 approximately 0.5 mile east of the Max Lamar 
Cooper Memorial Bridge)
Savannah Sparrow
Rusty Blackbird (20+ on Green Road)
Brewer's Blackbird (2 on Green Road)

I found the Brewer's Blackbirds in a mixed flock of several hundred grackles, 
red-wings, and starlings in a corn stubble field.  Afraid that I would spook 
the flock if I got out of the car, I viewed them from the driver's seat with 
the engine turned off.  After scanning the flock for a little while, I noticed 
the BRBL foraging on the edge of the group nearest to me.  As I checked for 
others, a noisy truck came by and flushed the entire group of birds.  They lit 
in trees a short distance away but then flew westward out of sight before I 
could get another look.  I strongly suspect that the flock contained more than 
two BRBL, as it seems unlikely that I would have been fortunate enough to find 
the entire number. 


Don Miller
Greeneville, Greene Co., TN

pandion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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