[TN-Bird] Re: Collared Doves (and some recent birds)

I wanted to post fairly late response to Richard Connors note about the lack of 
Eurasian Collared-Doves in the immediate Nashville area.  I live in Smyrna 
(northern Rutherford Co) and have no problem finding 10-15 pairs of 
Collared-Doves.  I have 2-3 pairs on my street and find them pretty regularly 
around town, esp. in neighborhoods.  I would say they are now not uncommon in 
Smyrna.  I flushed 10 from a power substation near my house on Saturday 
morning, which is the same place I had 169 in Aug 2008.  
 
My thought is that the bigger, more open yards, some large grassy fields, some 
gravel lots, and construction areas in the neighborhoods and shopping centers 
provide better habitat than in south Nashville (i.e. Crieve Hall, areas around 
Radnor Lake, and the Ellington Ag Center) where the trees are much larger and 
there is less open ground.  I don't see many Collared-Doves, if any, when 
cycling out in the rural areas south and east of Nashville.  If I was not 
riding and breathing hard, seeing double, and actually looked around more, 
maybe I'd see more.  Anyway, they seem to be primarily in town.  Their numbers 
have apparently risen in the last couple years in my neck of Smyrna.
 
Over the last few days I've heard singing Northern Bobwhite in at least 8 
different locations in western Rutherford, eastern Williamson, and southern 
Wilson Co.  I found all these while cycling.  I will occasionally hear a quail 
here and there, but I had 4 on 2 different days!  
 
I also had an uncommon summer pair of Cedar Waxwings yesterday southeast of 
Lebanon in Wilson Co.
 
 
From Richard Connors: June 16, 2010, Rutherford County TN
1 Eur. Collared-Dove also in Eagleville. Don't know if we're still keeping tabs 
on these, they do not seem to be in the immediate Nashville area, but seem  
established in farming communities out in the country-side.
Richard Connors
Nashville
 
Cheers,
Scott Somershoe
 
 
State Ornithologist
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
P.O. Box 40747
Nashville, TN 37204
615-781-6653 (o)
www.tnwatchablewildlife.org ( http://www.tnwatchablewildlife.org/ ) 
www.pbase.com/shoeman 
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