[TN-Bird] 2 kite species at Route 127 south of Pikeville
- From: "fekel" <fekel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:16:14 -0500
**TOS Fall Meeting and Symposium -- Oct 12-14, 2012**
Route 127, Slaughter house area south of Pikeville
Bledsoe Co., TN
2012 Aug. 11
9am-12:15pm
warm and mostly clear
I finally decided to drive down to the Pikeville area to see
if I could enjoy the SWALLOW-TAILED KITEs that have been viewed
there over the past 10 days or so. I arrived very early at the
R&D Custom Slaughtering building and extensively drove around the
area over the next 1 hour and 45 minutes without finding a kite.
Returning to the parking area at the slaughter house, I scanned south
and saw a very distant bird high in the sky that was headed in
my direction. With its drooped wing silhouette I knew I had
found my target. A few minutes later I was watching 2
SWALLOW-TAILED KITEs soar low above the tree line to the south of
the slaughter house. From time to time over the next 90 minutes
I would lose them and made a couple of driving forays south on
route 127 to look for them, turning around at the vocational
technical school. On my final drive south, I managed to pull off
before the technical school at a spot that had a large political
campaign sign for a state representative candidate. While getting
some photographs of the 2 SWALLOW-TAILED KITES, I was distracted
by a smaller bird soaring with them. I stopped my photos long enough
to check out the bird in my binoculars and to my surprise found that
it was a MISSISSIPPI KITE. Also seen soaring in the area were a
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK and a BROAD-WINGED HAWK. All in all a very nice
morning of birding.
Frank Fekel
Bellevue, TN
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
2012 FALL MEETING AND SYMPOSIUM AT NASHVILLE
October 12-14
The Nashville Chapter of the TOS will host TOS members and all other interested
birders to the Fall Meeting and Symposium on October 12-14, 2012. The host
hotel is the Baymont Inn, 111 Penn Warren Drive, Brentwood, TN 37027. call
1-615-376-4666 to make a reservation. For more details:
http://www.tnbirds.org/downloads/warbleraug12.pdf
=================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER=====================
The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with
first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation.
You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds
you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should
appear in the first paragraph.
_____________________________________________________________
To post to this mailing list, simply send email to:
tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
_____________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe, send email to:
tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field.
______________________________________________________________
TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society
Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s)
endorse the views or opinions expressed
by the members of this discussion group.
Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN
wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
------------------------------
Assistant Moderator Andy Jones
Cleveland, OH
-------------------------------
Assistant Moderator Dave Worley
Rosedale, VA
--------------------------------
Assistant Moderator Chris O'Bryan
Clemson, SC
__________________________________________________________
Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society
web site at http://www.tnbirds.org
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
ARCHIVES
TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/
MAP RESOURCES
Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif
Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com
_____________________________________________________________
Other related posts:
