[TN-Bird] Fwd: Warblers, orioles, tanagers - Knox
- From: KD Edwards <sparverius@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: TN-Bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:15:31 -0400
This message from yesterday appears to have gotten lost in the ether.
> From: KD Edwards <sparverius@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: April 29, 2012 21:09:12 EDT
> To: TN-Bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Warblers, orioles, tanagers - Knox
>
>
> Due to other commitments, I only had a couple hours on Sunday morning to
> participate in the Knox County Spring Count so I stayed around the house to
> maximize birding time and limit travel time. Started around 6:45 AM and
> ended the day with 48 species with both orioles, both tanagers, and 10
> warblers including 2 dueling Ceruleans and the world's most cooperative
> Bay-breasted. A brief return at lunch added a silent Empid, probably a Least
> Flycatcher based on apparent short primary projection but not the best view.
>
> Since Wed, I've had 71 species from the yard including 15 warblers. Not bad
> for a 1/2-acre suburban lot in west Knoxville.
>
> Notables today, all from home on Black Oak Ridge in west Knox County (FOS
> means first of spring for the yard):
>
> E Wood-Pewee, 1
> Empid sp., 1 FOS
>
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 1, getting late
>
> N Parula, 1 FOS
> Yellow Warbler, 1 FOS
> Magnolia Warbler, 1
> Cape May Warbler, 1
> Myrtle Yellow-rumped Warbler, 10
> Black-throated Green Warbler, 1
> Bay-breasted Warbler, 1 FOS giving great looks all morning including a 10
> minute preening session in the open on a dead limb, still singing when we
> came back at lunch
> Cerulean Warbler, 2 FOS, playing dueling banjos and chasing each other, at
> least one still singing at lunch
> Black-and-white Warbler, 1, maybe 2
> Common Yellowthroat, 1 FOS, uncommon in the yard
>
> Summer Tanager, 3 conservatively
> Scarlet Tanager, 3 conservatively
> Indigo Bunting, ~10, all flyovers giving the short buzzy flight call
>
> Orchard Oriole, 2 conservatively
> Baltimore Oriole, 2 FOS males, both heading NE along the ridge, one stopped
> long enough to sing a couple times before flying on, the other was a flyby
> seen well and heard giving flight call as it passed just over the trees
>
>
> Dean Edwards
> Knoxville, TN
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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