[TN-Bird] Re: baby owls, warblers, moths and such

Wallace, Dean et al.,
The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Tennessee (Nicholson 1997) provides
the following egg & nestling dates for Great Horned Owls in Tenn.:

egg dates:  2 Jan - 20 Mar.
nestling dates:  9 Feb - 24 May

So, nestlings in mid Jan. would certainly be a notable extension of the
known nesting period & should be verified.

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Rick Knight
Johnson City, TN
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-----Original Message-----
From: Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tennessee Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:04 PM
Subject: [TN-Bird] Re: baby owls, warblers, moths and such


>Dean Edwards and TN-Birders :
>
>WOW!  Young Great Horned Owls squealing on 17 January in Tennessee!
>Is this some kind of state record?  I am not sure but it seems early to
me.
>
>If Great Horned Owl young hatched on 17 Jan and were not able to hold
>their heads up or even make a barley audible sound of any kind, the
eggs
>would have been laid at least by maybe December 20 or before.  Eggs
>are incubated 26 to 35 days.  If the young are of an advanced age and
>large enough to be erect in the nest and make vocal squealing for food,
>then the eggs may have been laid in the second week of December.
>That would be astonishing for Tennessee.
>
>Since you reported more than one young squealing (2 is the typical
>number of young in a nest)  the first egg would have been laid anywhere
from
>about
>15 Dec to perhaps 18 Dec at the latest.  This is based on the
assumption
>that the eggs were laid from two to three days apart as Great Horned
Owls
>often do.
>
>We've climbed to several nests here in the Northeast Tennessee area
>which had eggs and also banded several nests of young birds and never
had
>anything earlier than 21 Jan for eggs.  That nest was in Virginia and
within
>a hundred
>yards of the Tennessee state line.  Virginia's earliest egg date that I
am
>aware of is 8 Jan. 1941.
>
>If you have a visual confirmation of the young on this
>date then we might have a really great Tennessee breeding record.
>I don't not know anything about Great Horned Owl nests with eggs in
>December in Tennessee but it is not a far-fetched possibility.
>
>Some authors have reported Great Horned Owl eggs as early as
>November  in the deep south.  Florida has
>egg dates in December as does South Carolina.  Alabama had young
>in the nest by Dec 23.  Louisiana had young out of the nest by Feb. 18
>which clearly could have been extremely early winter egg dates.  I
don't
>have the most up-to-date records for these states.
>
>Good luck and let us hear more about what you can nail down.
>
>Let's go birding......
>
>Wallace Coffey
>Bristol, TN
>
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