[TN-Bird] Re: Back SKY bird count???
- From: Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx
- To: tnwarbler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:02:59 EST
In a message dated 2/14/2009 8:27:03 AM Pacific Standard Time,
tnwarbler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Other times everywhere I
looked, there were Robins. Has anyone else noticed this?
It seems to happen every year. I first noticed it in Florida when on
birding trips with the Winter Park chapter of the Florida Audubon Society
during the
late 1940's. Another thing we noticed about robins is that they like to feed
on freshly burned farm lands which used to be common winter "happenings" in
our area. Daddy used to burn off our watermelon field, and the next day,
robins appeared on that five acres by the THOUSANDS! I often see them from my
deck
in the Charlotte Park area of West Nashville, flying high and seemingly
forever. Other birds such as gulls and mixed flocks of grackles/blackbirds do
this
mass migration only they usually fly lower than the robins. One day, I saw
gulls over the Cumberland flying past the Riverbend Prison library in West
Nashville during my full eight hour workday there when I was their librarian.
Also saw literally millions of gulls flying south over the Indian River in
Florida, between Melbourne/Indialantic & Wabasso for two solid rainy days in
1974.
Returning from Shelbyville, TN, one November day, I saw a huge string of
blackbirds & grackles flying south along 41A just at the S'ville city limits to
its
intersection with 31A at College Grove, a distance of about 18 miles. That
was one LONG and WIDE string of birds.
Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN
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