[TN-Bird] Re: Loggerhead Shrike x2 and an odd duck
- From: Ed Schneider <ed.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Laura Jennings McCall <laurajmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:15:35 -0600
After getting some excellent directions from Laura, my wife and I found the two
Loggerhead Shrike this afternoon. We first saw one, and on a second pass we saw
the second bird fly out of a lone cedar in the fencerow. After turning around
for a second pass, both birds were present in the tree, so it's likely they are
paired up and working on a nest...
Good Shriking!
Ed Schneider
Whites Creek
Davidson Co.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 10, 2011, at 9:23 PM, Laura Jennings McCall <laurajmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Ed,
> If you're coming from Shelbyville on 82, you would take Old Center Church
> Road not far past the Himesville Baptist(?) Church, on your right. Follow
> that road maybe 1/4 mile, then turn left on Earnest Campbell Road. Take
> Earnest Campbell to the stop sign (I have seen what I thought was a shrike in
> the cedar tree on the right, but wasn't able to get a good look). The road
> that is straight ahead (actually a bit of an offset to the right) is Amos
> Gamble Rd, where I saw the shrikes. About 1/8 of a mile down the road, on
> the right, is where I saw the birds Wednesday.
>
> To get back to Hwy 82, take Amos Gamble back to the stop sign, turn right
> onto New Center Church Road, and follow it all the way back to the highway.
> You will end up at the Flat Creek Market, where you'll turn right toward
> Lynchburg (you'll recognize it, I'm sure).
>
> Thanks for the awesome pictures!
>
> Let me know if you find the birds!
>
> Laura
>
> On Mar 10, 2011, at 6:42 PM, Ed Schneider wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the report Laura, and cool stories (LOL on the duck!).
>>
>> I'll be at our house @ Tim's Ford this weekend (Ridgeville, Moore Co.), how
>> do
>> I get to where you saw the Shrikes from the corner of 82 & 55? (I'll be
>> coming from
>> Nashville via Shelbyville on 82)
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Ed Schneider
>> Whites Creek
>> Davidson Co.
>>
>> p.s.- attaching a couple shots from a farm in central GA a couple Falls ago
>> when
>> I went down to see the Swallow-tailed kites. There were over 50 STKI in one
>> field (!)
>> along with almost 80 Mississippi Kites, and the Shrikes were all over the
>> place (compared to
>> TN anyway)
>>
>> > From: laurajmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Subject: [TN-Bird] Loggerhead Shrike x2 and an odd duck
>> > Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 20:38:15 -0600
>> >
>> > Bedford County, 3/9/11
>> > After picking up my daughter from the sitter's this afternoon, I saw 2
>> > Loggerhead Shrikes, about 20 feet apart, in the fencerow on Amos
>> > Gamble Road in Flat Creek.
>> >
>> > About 6 weeks ago, during one of our cold snaps, I saw a Downy
>> > Woodpecker impaled on the barbed wire fence about 200 feet from where
>> > I saw the shrikes today. I really wanted to check it out further but
>> > the roads were bad that day and I didn't think I had time to linger--
>> > and it was gone when I returned that afternoon. I presumed that a
>> > shrike was responsible for the Downy's death, but I was still pretty
>> > surprised that they would take something so big. Is that unusual?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Moore County, 3/5/11
>> > While getting into the car Saturday morning, I heard an unusual sound.
>> > I looked around and was shocked to see a female Wood Duck on my
>> > chimney. She was making a low tremolo--I've never heard it before.
>> > Anyway, it was quite a sight to see a duck (of any kind) on top of a
>> > house in downtown Lynchburg. I'm not sure what she was thinking!
>> >
>> >
>> > Laura McCall
>> > Lynchburg, TN
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