[tn-bird] Unusual find at Shelby Farms

19 May 2002

    Today at Shelby Farms there weren't too many migrants left; some waxwings, 
Swainson's Thrushes and a Blackburnian.  Went to the trail between the regular 
Wolf River trail and Germantown Rd trail; there I heard a song.  I thought 
funny, sounds like a Painted Bunting.  After hearing it many times I concluded 
it was a Painted, but wanted to see it.  Looked throughout the tree I thought 
it was in, not seeing anything.  Finally, I see it, with its red belly and blue 
head, perched atop a telephone pole, on north side of Moore Rd.  It flew into 
thicket and vanished.  Later went back; now it was singing on the trail side 
(south); tried to see it, then heard it coming from the north side again.  A 
very skittish PABU.  Got another glimpse as it flew away.
    There are apparently only a few records for Shelby Farms.  We expect them 
close to the Miss. River, in the floodplain, but I was very surprised to find 
it here, a good fifteen miles east of the river.
    Pied-bill Grebe back at the fish farm, probably nesting again this year as 
last.

Rob Peeples
Germantown, TN

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