5/8/04 Percy Priest Lake Area (Rutherford Co.), TN 3:30 am - 7:30 pm As part of the Nashville Area Spring Count/Int'l Migratory Bird Day a team including myself, Terry Witt and Jason Mann covered areas mainly around the southern end of Percy Priest Lake down to Murfreesboro in Rutherford County. Despite a general lack of migrants, we were successful in finding many of the unique breeding birds for this area including CHUCK-WILLS-WIDOW, WHIP-POOR-WILL, SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER, DICKCISSEL, GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, BLUE GROSBEAK, LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE, BEWICK'S WREN, LARK SPARROW, lots of SUMMER TANAGERS and PRAIRIE WARBLERS and both BLACK-CROWNED and YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS. The day's total came to 122 species. However, probably the weirdest bird we found was a single AMERICAN PIPIT at Poole Knobs WMA. Apparently this bird is only a day shy of the late date for this species in Tennessee. Good Birding! Jay Desgrosellier Nashville, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================