[Bristol-Birds] Re: Pine Siskins on Roan Mountain, TN&NC
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>,"bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,"TN-birds" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:04:46 -0400
>And he had up to 6 "birders" coming to his feeder June 9, 1998 and they
>gradually decreased until he had one left by early October.
Mercy. Make that read 6 birds coming to his feeder. :-)
You would think 6 birders who have all left before early October :-(
Let's go "birders".......
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 10:56 PM
Subject: [Bristol-Birds] Re: Pine Siskins on Roan Mountain, TN&NC
> Tom McNeil and all others:
>
> The Great Blue Heron flying through Carver's Gap on Roan Mountain (Carter
> Co. TN / Mitchell Co., NC) at this date is probably our first detected
> vagrant migrant wader as the southern breeding populations disperses from
> their breeding grounds and moves north until fall.
>
> Some of you might have noticed Dwayne Martin's report today of a Snowy
Egret
> seen yesterday morning on Lookout Shoals Lake in western North Carolina
by
> Monroe Pannell. That was the first report there in five or six years. We
> need to start watching all our waterways and places like Musick's
Campground
> on South Holston Lake in Sullivan Co., TN. and localities on south in
> Tennessee.
>
> What does a flock of Pine Siskins at Carver's Gap this time of the year
tell
> us ?
> This is strange to me. By July 4, 1973, Glen Eller and Gary Wallace had
> adults feeding apparent fledged young on Roan. Richard Lewis had a nest
> being built on Roan as late as July 15-16, 1975. Rick Knight had a nest
> there July 13 to August 1, 1993. John Shumate had 2 adults with 3 young
> coming to his feeder in Shady Valley (Johnson Co., TN) June 27-30, 2001.
> And he had up to 6 birders coming to his feeder June 9, 1998 and they
> gradually decreased until he had one left by early October.
>
> I wonder if we have a flock of unmated birds lingering there and they will
> not nest? Or have they just not paired for breeding yet ? We need to
keep
> our eyes open in the gap and around the Roan.
>
> Those were good finds, Tom !
>
> Let's go birding....
>
> Wallace Coffey
> Bristol, TN
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas McNeil" <tsmcneil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Carolina Birds" <carolinabirds@xxxxxxxx>; "bristol-birds"
> <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "TN-Bird Net" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 8:25 PM
> Subject: [Bristol-Birds] Pine Siskins on Roan Mountain, TN&NC
>
>
> > Sunday June 27, 2004
> >
> > At Carver's Gap (Roan Mountain) this afternoon, there were 15-20 Pine
> > Siskins working through the trees on both sides of the gap. Three Red
> > Crossbills were also observed (on the NC side).
> >
> > A Great Blue Heron seemed quite out-of-place, as it glided overhead
> through
> > the gap.
> >
> >
> > Thomas McNeil
> > Elizabethton, TN
> > tsmcneil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > tsmcneil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> >
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