[TN-Bird] Re: Red-breasted Nuthatch

I just returned from 3 weeks in Detroit, Michigan area where
Red-breasted Nuthatches have been causing quite a stir for
the last couple months due to their early arrival and large
numbers.  I had them just about everywhere I went on my limited
birding trips while there and a few times when I wasn't birding...
like one morning in the hotel parking lot.  I ran over to
Pt Pelee in Ontario and was seemingly never out of earshot of
at least one RBNU.

Other birding highlights of the trip included 100s of Sharp-shinned
Hawks migrating through at Pt Pelee soaring, chasing each other
and anything else, and bursting through the trees after the
songbirds I was trying to watch.  Also an adult and juvenile
Red-necked Phalarope at Lake Erie Metropark south of Detroit.
On the drive up, Eurasian Collared-Doves were seen frequently
at least as far north as Dayton, OH.


Dean Edwards
finally back in Knoxville, TN... for now



On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Wallace Coffey wrote:

> Kevin Breault and TN-Birders,
>
> Red-breasted Nuthatch: They have been moving south since mid-June
> presumably because of the poor cone crop in central Canada. Almost
> all Red-breasted Nuthatches will depart Ontario's boreal forest by
> late fall and left the province -- message posted to Ohio-Birds by
> Ron Pittaway, Ontario Field Ornithologists, Minden, Ontario
> 15 September 2007.
>
> Let's go birding......
>
> Wallace Coffey
> Bristol, TN
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "K.D. Breault" <KBreault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "tn-bird" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:25 PM
> Subject: [TN-Bird] Red-breasted Nuthatch
>
>
>> Most be a red-letter, Red-breasted Nuthatch day (and month).  See the
>> email
>> from Irvin Pitts from South Carolina.  Another email today on the Georgia
>> listserve has a Red-breast in Powder Springs, GA (Cobb Co.), and I have
>> seen
>> two this month, including one today, on my "mountain" (i.e., hill)
>> property
>> in Williamson County.  I would bet they will be as south as the panhandle
>> in
>> Florida (if you are going south look for them at Tall Timbers Research
>> Station, FL just over the border from GA).
>> Kevin Breault
>> Brentwood, TN
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Irvin Pitts" <ipitts@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <carolinabirds@xxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 8:00 AM
>> Subject: another red-breasted nuthatch
>>
>>
>> Good morning,
>> I've noticed the number of reports this fall of red-breasted nuthatch and
>> I
>> too observed one yesterday (September 19) on Dearborn Island near Great
>> Falls Chester County SC. In the mountains around Caesars Head SC I found
>> this species to be a regular fall migrant - occurring from mid-September
>> through October (personal early arrival date being September 7, 1988). It
>> seems though based on this year's reports, this species is occurring in
>> higher than usual numbers in the midlands and lower parts of the state.
>>
>> Irvin Pitts
>> Resource Management Chief
>> SC State Park Service
>> Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism
>> 1205 Pendleton Street
>> Columbia, SC 29201
>>
>> Phone: (803) 734-0153
>> ipitts@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Shaping & Sharing a Better South Carolina
>>
>>
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