[TN-Bird] Rutherford County, Scissortailed Flycatcher
- From: Terry Witt <terrywitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mcshane1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:53:07 -0700 (PDT)
I went out this morning looking for the Scissortailed Flycatchers on Lytle
Creek
Road.
I had no luck initially, but driving on Wilson Overall Road north a bit past
the
turn to Lytle Creek Road, the road turns 90 degrees left.
Perhaps 200 yards past the curve, one male Scissortail Flycatcher was seen
perched on a fence looking quite unhappy in the cold wind.
A pair of flycatchers nested in this stretch a few years ago.
Worth checking this area if the birds are elusive.
Terry Witt
Murfreesboro Tn
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From: Mark Mcshane <mcshane1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Mon, April 23, 2012 9:22:31 PM
Subject: [TN-Bird] Rutherford, Wilson, and Hamilton Counties - 4/21/12
Hi All,
This past Saturday Max Medley of Dalton, GA (originally born in Manchester, TN)
and I came up to the Murfreesboro area to see the only Bewick's Wrens that I
have found reported in eBird so far for 2012 east of the Mississippi River!
I had really been wanting to come up and try for the wrens for several years
now
and am really glad that we finally did! Max had seen the birds twice previously
in Tennessee, both times in Coffee County, in the early to mid 1960s but hadn't
seen them since in the state.
We visited the 5710, 5512, and 5089 Lytle Creek Road sites in Rutherford
County,
as well as the 985-1133 Alsup Mill Road stretch just barely into Wilson County.
We saw a pair of the wrens at the first spot we tried at 5710. We saw two as
well at 5512 but think that these were probably the same pair as at 5710. We
didn't get any at 5089, but we did only hear one at 1133 Alsup Mill Road.
We also looked for the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher previously reported from the
area of the Lytle Creek Road intersection with Wilson Overall Road. We never
saw
the flycatcher and didn't know if it had departed or if it should still have
been there somewhere, we looked around a good bit.
Afterwards we birded the Standifer Gap Road Marsh in Hamilton County where
three
young birders put us on to an American Bittern and a couple of stunning Yellow
Warblers.
I was able to get some handheld phonescoped video clips of a Bewick's Wren
singing, the inscrutable American Bittern, and one of the Yellow Warblers
feeding. It's not exactly easy to video phonescope warblers (or anything else)
but I did get what I think is a fairly beautiful but very short clip of a
Yellow
Warbler gleaning while hovering. In addition I took 7 of the still video frames
from that clip and posted those as well as JPG files.
I put the video clips and still frames up at the 042112 Tennessee folder on my
Box site at:
http://www.box.com/shared/2yxtdkm3ta
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If you need or want the free QuickTime Player from Apple for the MOVie files,
it's available at:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download
The phone only shoots video at 1080p and produces a native video resolution on
the computer screen of 1920x1080, which also may be way too big for a lot of
folks' screen settings or monitors, but it can't be changed.
The videos should be set up to fit your computer screen, but if not then once
you get into QuickTime you can click on the View menu up at the top left and
then select Half Size, or Fit to Screen, and the video should better fit your
screen. You can play around and change some of the other settings from the
menus
up there as well.
You can also pause the videos, and then click-on (hold your click down), and
then drag the little upside-down black triangle progress indicator (at the
bottom of the screen) through the video very slowly, a frame at a time, for
maybe more revealing frame-by-frame detail shots!
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We really had a great time birding in Tennessee Saturday!
Good Birding All!
Mark
Mark McShane
Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia
www.neargareport.com
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