[TN-Bird] Henslow's Sparrows back at Bridgestone/Firestone WMA in White County

The Henslow's Sparrows are back at Bridgestone/Firestone Wildlife Management 
Area on the Cumberland Plateau in White County. I was there this morning 
(April 22) and counted 14 singing birds and found two others that I took to 
be females (one carrying food and the other was with a singing bird) among 
the several hundred acres of high quality warm season native grasses. Also 
there were 3 N. Bob-Whites calling and another flushed, 2 Sedge Wrens 
singing from the tall grass, and a male and female N. Harrier present. Some 
of the sparrows were heard and seen along Eastland Road from the easternmost 
parking area (the one where the gate is about 100 yards from the road).

On the way there before dawn I heard 6 Whip-poor-wills (one also flushed 
from the road) in western Cumberland County near the intersection of Flat 
Rock Road and Flynn's Cove Road. The regenerating clearcuts here have been 
reliable for them in previous years.

-Ed LeGrand
Cumberland County 

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