[TN-Bird] migrants - Knox
- From: K Dean EDWARDS <kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Tennessee Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:12:25 -0400 (EDT)
Still going through the ~50 min of audio recordings I made early
Tues morning. So far I've picked out Bobolink, Indigo Bunting,
Veery, and Swainson's, Gray-cheeked and Wood Thrushes. Also
lots of warbler-like peeps and chips and one very interesting
high-pitched thrush-like call -- descending at around 4kHz.
I'm going to try to post some WAV files and sonograms at some point.
Fewer migrants were heard last night but there were some going by.
Also seemed quieter this morning but I didn't spend long looking.
A couple of notes, vireo numbers have been really down this
year in our yard with only a few Red-eyed and 1 Yellow-throated.
The Black Gum berry crop (and all mast for that matter) is
really low this year and most of that was eaten before getting
ripe by the squirrels. I've been asked by a few about the
Yellow-bellied FC calls. Tues morning there were at least 5
E Wood-Pewees and some were giving their version of the
repeated 'puh-wee' call which served as a nice mental refresher.
To me, the Pewee call is drier, longer and often closer to
its normal 3-sylable call and seldom repeated more than 3 or 4
times in a row without a 'pee-ooh' thrown in. Again, to me,
the Yellow-bellied call is sharper and richer sounding, with
short, regular pauses between the repetitions which can number
as many as 20-30 in a row.
26 / 27 Sept 2006
backyard, west Knox Co.
Chimney Swift - ~5 / ~5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2-4 / 0
Eastern Wood-Pewee - ~5 / 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 0 / 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 / 0
Veery - dozens nocturnal / 0
Gray-cheeked Thrush - probably 100+ nocturnal / 0
Swainson's Thrush - 100s nocturnal, few in the morning / 0
Wood Thrush - few nocturnal / 0
American Robin - 50+ / few
Gray Catbird - 0 / 1
Brown Thrasher - 1 / 1
Tennessee Warbler - 2+ / 0
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 / 0
Magnolia Warbler - ~10 / 0
Black-throated Green Warbler - ~3 / 0
Blackburnian Warbler - 2+ / 0 I've had a lot of these this fall
Yellow-throated Warbler - at least 1 / 0
"Western" Palm Warbler - 2+ / 0
American Redstart - ~10 / 0
unIDed warblers - lots more (~30 or more) flew over without stopping plus
100s of nocturnal migrants heard
Scarlet Tanager - at least 2 / 0
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 5+ / 10+
Indigo Bunting - dozens to 100s nocturnal / 0
Bobolink - dozens nocturnal / 0
Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN
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