[TN-Bird] Random birds

Saturday morning, 7:15am, I was on I-24S in Rutherford County at mile marker 75 
just north of Murfreesboro and had a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher fly across the 
interstate in front of me.  
 
While biking though Warren, Van Buren, and Sequatchie Counties Saturday 
(8:15-12:00) (I started just east of McMinnville), I had plenty of migrants, 
including: 
Tennessee warblers (bunches)
parula -1
yellow-rumpeds
lots of black-and-whites
1 what I think was a cerulean (I slowed up but couldn't stop because I was 
biking up a mountain and stopping is bad on mountains)
black-thr greens (numerous)
yellow-thr warblers -2
prairies (lots) 
pines-a few
kentucky warblers (5+)
hooded warblers (10+)
worm-eating warblers (2)
common yellowthroat (1)
yellow-breasted chat (1)  
 
-13 species (possibly 14) of warbler by bike is pretty good!!
I also had kingbirds, rosebreasted grospigs, one blue grosbeak, and others.
 
I also had a red-headed woodpecker in Van Buren County at the intersection of 
old state highway 111 and highway 111.  First one I think I've found in TN 
since I moved.
 
-In case you're wondering, I race road bikes (like Lance Armstrong, just not as 
far nor as fast and I don't win) and spend significant amounts of time riding 
my bike (and birding by bike)
 
 
I also spotted an adult Bald Eagle with fish flying over I-40 and the Buffalo 
River, mile marker ~142 in Humphreys county Sunday afternoon.

Scott Somershoe 
 
State Ornithologist 
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
P.O. Box 40747
Nashville, TN 37204
615-781-6653 (o)
615-781-6654 (fax)
 
"Keeping the rubber side down" - S.G.S. 
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