I found a single singing Bachman's Sparrow while running the
Collinwood Breeding Bird Survey route this morning (5/30/2016), in
the general vicinity of Loretto in Lawrence County. Damien Simbeck
had the species on this route a few times in the Wayne County
portion, but it has been over a decade since the last time. I'm
reluctant to post a detailed location for a bird that appears to be
on territory right alongside a public road in this era of rampant use
of playback.
The habitat the bird was in is a bit different from the large young
pine-converted clearcuts where Damian found the bird regularly in the
southwestern Highland Rim in the 1990s. This was a small pine stand
several decades old, a portion of which had been cleared a few years
ago, leaving a strip of tall pines between the clearing and an
adjacent large field. The cleared area is now regrown with low brush
and brambles. The bird was singing from the taller pines, about 15
feet up. This is their typical behavior father south where they nest
in open savannah-like pine woods.
Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
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