[Bristol-Birds] Re: Tree Swallow at Bristol, TN

  • From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:37:45 -0500

Thanks Rick, for getting us up to date on the
Tree Swallow arrival dates.  You always have the best
of records and I appreciate that.

Wallace Coffey
Bristol

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Knight <RKnight@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>; 1-A Bristol-Birds
<bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, February 27, 2003 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Bristol-Birds] Tree Swallow at Bristol, TN


>Wallace et al.,
>Actually, 26 Feb ties the early arrival date for Tree Swallow in Northeast
>Tenn (5 county area), set in 1998 & 2001.  The former occurred in Unicoi
>Co., while the latter was in Washington Co.  Swallows are the "light at the
>end of the tunnel", with spring just coming into view. (It's about time.)
>
>Good find, chief.
>###################
>Rick Knight
>Johnson City, TN
>rknight@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: 1-A Bristol-Birds <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 6:41 PM
>Subject: [Bristol-Birds] Tree Swallow at Bristol, TN
>
>
>>
>>Area Birders:
>>
>>I observed a Tree Swallow today (2/26) at Middlebrook Lake in Bristol,
>>Sullivan Co., Tennssee.
>>
>>As far as I know this is the earliest record for the species in Northeast
>>Tennessee.
>>
>>The earliest Southwest Virginia record I am aware of is 25 Feb. 1996 in
>>Washington Co.    Lorrie and John Shumate of Shady Valley, TN observed a
>>Tree Swallow at a bluebird nesting box along U.S. 58 highway between
>>Damascus and Abingdon in
>>Washington County, VA.
>>
>>Scott Klopfer reported two Tree Swallows in Blacksburg, VA on 26 Feb 1997
>>which, at that time, was a new  early arrival record for Montgomery &
>>Pulaski Counties.
>>
>>If anyone has updates on early records for the Tree Swallow please post
>them
>>to Bristol Birds Net.
>>
>>Let's go birding.....
>>
>>Wallace Coffey
>>Bristol, TN
>>
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