[TN-Bird] Bledsoe County Scissor Tailed Flycatchers

From: "Carole Gobert" <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 15:07:45 -0400
Returned to Ninemile Crossroads in Bledsoe County around 12:30 (EST) this 
afternoon to check in on the nesting Scissor Tailed Flycatchers.  There are 
3 young and they're getting ready to fledge.  All three were out in the open 
begging, flexing their wings and fluttering around.  First one fluttered up 
to a perch about a foot above the nest, then I could find only 2 and finally 
re-located the 3rd on a wire a couple feet below the nest.   Both parents 
were nearby.

The mailman did a U-turn in the road to ask me what was so interesting to 
look at.  I handed him my binoculars and he was duly impressed.  Said he'd 
never seen one of those birds before.  One of the adults obligingly flew 
over the field giving him a great look at its spectacular tail.  You'd think 
that if he drives down that road delivering mail every day he might have 
noticed one.

When I left about 12:55 (Eastern Time) the three young were still out on the 
transformer, calling, hopping and fluttering around.

Carole Gobert, Knox County, TN


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