[TN-Bird] Pair of Swainson's thrushes (Kingston|Roane Co.)

I haven't had as much time as I wanted for backyard birding this spring, but 
the Swainson's thrush who's been singing up in the woods for the last 3 days 
was joined this morning by a second one singing from a princess tree 25 feet 
from my front deck, unimpressed by a cat fight that took place almost at the 
base of the tree, and equally unimpressed by the loudly screaming human who 
rushed to break up the fight. Unfortunately, the altercation silenced a 
Rose-breasted grosbeak before I could spot him. A pair of them came to my 
feeders about 3 weeks ago.
I've also had a most glorious male Magnolia warbler and a first spring female 
Bay-breasted warbler picking through the new shoots on my hedgerow of young 
pines; a Black-and-white warbler; a Hooded warbler; Yellow-rump (myrtle) 
warblers; and at least one adult Bay-breasted warbler. 

Saw my first Eastern kingbird yesterday; a pair of Field sparrows regularly 
flit around my "grassland" sector of the yard; the Summer tanagers, Phoebes, 
Common yellowthroats, and Indigo buntings are busy; the Chimney swifts are 
flitting everywhere; I heard a Great horned owl 2 nights ago; and I have every 
standard local species of woodpecker except Red heads.

Interestingly, a pair of Kingfishers have lately been routine visitors to the 
old dead oaks across the road from my driveway, and I very often see them 
sitting on the phone lines about 200 feet down the road and closer to the lake. 
I'm not sure what they're suddenly doing up here, 0.5 miles or so from the 
lake. There's a small, deep perennial spring another 0.1 mi. down the road from 
my house, but I've not yet seen them go in that direction. So I'm adding 
Kingfishers to my yard list!

My housemate was excited to find a large olive-backed, bright-yellow-breasted 
bird eating wild strawberries not far from the edge of the driveway -- his 
first Chat, whom I've heard for some weeks but not been lucky enough to see.

No Great crested flycatcher yet. I keep hoping for Blue grosbeaks someday.

Happy spring migration, everyone.

Liz Singley
Kingston (southa river)




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