[Bristol-Birds] Re: Yellow-rumped Warbler - Grayson Highlands S.P., Virginia
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:42:05 -0400
Ed Talbott and Area Birders,
In response to your question: "Wallace, do you have the status of summer
Yellow-rumped Warblers in the Grayson Highlands area?"
The breeding season status of the Yellow-rumped Warbler in the Whitetop-Mt.
Rogers-Grayson Highlands complex is a rare and local summer resident and, no
doubt breeding in larger numbers than we have detected in the high country.
My records indicate it has been recorded in the Grayson Highlands area since
2001. There are few public records.
We have an apparent breeding record from Grayson Highlands State Park area:
Alan Kneide had "a family" of Yellow-rumped Warbler "evidently breeding"
down the Grayson Virginia Highlands Horse Trail in the park last 14-15
August (2004).
Yellow-rumps have been breeding in the region since the early 1990s. The
species is expanding its southeast breeding range in spruce and fir areas
above 4,000 feet throughout our region. It began to establish itself at
Roan Mountain Jun-16-Jul 1993 (pair, nest, 2 young) on the North Carolina
side. John Gerwin, of the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Science,
and Rick Knight of Johnson City) there established the only breeding record
south of West Virginia in the Appalachians at that time.
The observation you and Michelle just reported is another valuable link.
For those who have a chance to possibly find a nest, it is usually built on
horizontal limbs about two-thirds out from the trunk, but none at the
outermost end. They are conspicuous from below but not from above. They may
be expected 10 to 15 feet from the ground but possibly lower. You might
expect mammal hair and featherws woven in the nest cup. The nest are almost
always in evergreens such as spruce and fir (Arthur Cleveland Bent, 1953).
Let's go birding.....
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
----- June 27, 2005 7:27 AM -Ed Talbott wrote ----
> The big surprise of the day was a male Yellow-rumped Warbler in breeding
> plumage singing from the top of a spruce
> tree that we overlooked from one of the rocky outcrops. . .Wallace, do you
> have the status of summer Yellow-rumped Warblers in the
> Grayson Highlands area? I know they are found on Roan Mt. in June and
> Mike Boatwright found two on Whitetop on June 28, 2004. Thanks.
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