[TN-Bird] Sequatchie Valley Scissor-tailed Flycatchers

Denise Nauman, Tony King, Zamboni and I spent all afternoon today birding in 
Bledsoe County, mainly looking for Scissor-tailed Flycatchers and the 
Dickcissals seen by Ed LeGrand on June 21.  We first stopped at the transformer 
on Ninemile Crossroad where the Scissor-tails have been nesting for the past 
several years and discovered that the 3 young have fledged!  We got good looks 
at the whole family (2 adults, 3 fledglings) as they hunted and perched on the 
wires and fences.  

 

The mailman stopped and told us about another group of Scissor-tails on East 
Valley Road a couple miles north of Pikeville, so we headed in that direction.  
(take Ninemile Crossroad to its end and turn right on East Valley Road).  Sure 
enough, about a mile north of Pikeville on East Valley Road we found two more 
adults and two fledglings at a dairy farm with a very large pond and silo on 
the east side of the road.  The nest (now abandoned) was on a transformer at 
the top of the wide concrete road/drive at the farm.  We continued on a little 
way toward Pikeville and at a farm about half a mile north of Pikeville (on the 
west side of the road) spotted four Eurasian Collared Doves atop a barn.  After 
a lunch break in Pikeville, we drove back up East Valley Road.  

 

At Oxier Hollow Road (which I could not find on any internet map and was not 
even in Tony's gazeteer) we stopped to look for the Dickcissals as Ed had 
indicated that was the easiest place to find one.  We drove east on Oxier 
Hollow Road a short distance (maybe a quarter mile) where we spotted another 
adult Scissor-tailed Flycatcher sitting on a wire to the west of the road.  We 
stopped to look at at it and Tony located a beautiful male Dickcissal singing 
from a tall bush on the east side of the road. 

 

So we had 10 Scissor-tails for the day.... 5 adults and 5 juveniles.  

 

Carole Gobert, Knoxville, Knox County, TN

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