[TN-Bird] new yard warblers in Lynchburg, ST Flycatcher in Christiana

From: Laura Jennings McCall <laurajmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tn bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:27:19 -0500
While the weather seems to have triggered an uptick in bird activity  
in my yard (Lynchburg, Moore County), it has made getting out and  
watching them less than appealing.  So I haven't done a lot of quality  
birdwatching in the last several days, but I have picked up two new  
yard species anyway.

Monday, October 12 - Black-throated Green Warbler
Tuesday, October 13 - Tennessee Warbler.  There was actually a whole  
lot of warbler activity Tuesday afternoon when the rain slowed to a  
sprinkle and I was trying to do some yard work, so I went in to grab  
my binoculars. When I came back out, most of the birds had moved on to  
a more distant hackberry tree that was horribly backlit, so this was  
the only one I could get a good ID on.  Who knows what else was  
there?  If I'd been just a little quicker...

Other than that, we still had a female Ruby-throated Hummingbird as of  
Wednesday (10/14) (I wasn't here yesterday and haven't watched for her  
today) and have had an increased level of activity from the  
chickadees, titmice, Downy Woodpeckers, and Red-bellied Woodpeckers.  
We had taken the feeders down for several weeks when we noticed  
several House Finches with eye disease, and neither they nor the  
goldfinches seem to have noticed that we put them back up.

I saw a single Scissor-tailed Flycatcher in Christiana (Rutherford  
County) Wednesday afternoon (10/14).  This time it was on the power  
line that runs along Parsons Road, and it was visible from Highway  
231, immediately south of Christiana Elementary School.  Based on the  
tail length, I think it was the male. I pulled in the church parking  
lot and scanned the landscape to see if I could locate others, but I  
had no luck.  This was the same power line where I saw three Scissor- 
tails about a month ago (9/13).

Laura McCall
Lynchburg, TN

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