[Bristol-Birds] Woodcocks, blackbirds in Shady Valley
- From: Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: 1-A Bristol-Birds <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 21:58:38 -0400
Monday evening (2/24) Chris O'Bryan and I birded at the end of the day in
Shady Valley, Johnson Co. -- Tennessee's highest mountain valley. We had
three American Woodcocks and possibly four calling from the ground.
It was interesting that the typical "peent" call given while on the ground
was not being used much. We could hear several birds calling from the
ground but there were long periods when there was no "peent" calling but the
males were still flying and singing their display flights.
At one point three were displaying with their advertising flights and sky
singing with their falling-leaf flight.
We also had a striking flock of an estimated 1,000 Red-winged Blackbirds.
Mixed with them were a very few females and known second year males. We
also saw about a dozen grackles with them. No Rusty Blackbirds could be
detected.
Let's go birding...
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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