[TN-Bird] Savannah bottoms

From: Bill Pulliam <bb551@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: TN-birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 10:05:18 -0600
Howdy all,

A belated note about my party's turf from the Savannah CBC on  
12/29/08.  We covered some of the bottoms areas just below the dam  
and state park campground (Hardin County).  Apparently we had the  
best (only?) grassy sparrow habitat in the area.  It's in the Shiloh  
Shores subdivision, a development that has been platted out with  
roads and power lines, but has only one house in it and hundreds of  
acres of unmowed grass (plus no posted signs).  It is reached from  
the road labeled as "Nixon Loop" in Google Maps, west of "Hamburg  
Loop" off of Highway 128 in Pyburns.  We had 6 LeConte's Sparrows in  
this area, along with over 300 Savannah Sparrows and one Short-eared  
Owl.  Most of the LeConte's were in the vicinity of the pipeline  
crossing areas west of the entrance to the subdivision.  Anyone  
interested in spending a day stomping these fields might turn up a  
variety of interesting things!

Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
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