[TN-Bird] Wheeler Wildlife Refuge Field Trip

Fellow Tn-Birders
May I add to the note announcing your upcoming field trip to Wheeler.   The 
normally closed Whitesburg Dike area is part of my CBC area.  It is an  awesome 
place to bird.  Expect to have your skills tested with sparrows,  the wet 
areas in particular are a challenge with elusive sparrows often  responding to 
pishing and the ducking back into the weedy cover.  
 
A few rare wintering warbler species are likely to be found.  Possible  are a 
couple of vireo species, including Blue-headed.  Don't forget to look  up 
regularly while birding, since the sky can often be alive with ducks, geese,  
gulls, terns and a variety of raptors.  Nesting Great-horned Owls should be  on 
the prowl in the daytime, so keep an eye out for these parent birds feeding  
young.  Search the powerlines and right of ways for rare seedeaters and  
raptors.  
 
I wish I could join your for the trip.  Good birding guys.  If  you find the 
Vermilion Flycatcher, flip a special salute for Martha and me, he  eluded us 
on count day.
 
Bless all.
Bob
 
Bob  Sargent
The Hummer/Bird Study Group, Inc.
PO Box 250
Clay, Alabama,  35048-0250
205-681-2888
www.hummingbirdsplus.org

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