[TN-Bird] Chattanooga RBA #20
- From: "Kevin A. Calhoon" <kac@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To:
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:24:46 -0400
You have reached Kevin Calhoon with the Chattanooga RBA, sponsored by the
Chattanooga Chapter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society.
This is Update Number #20 made on September 26, 2003.
You can call the RBA at 423 -821- 4381.
A full day in the field in Hamilton co. on September 25 produced 98 species:
(Kevin Calhoon)
Highlights included 5 species of vireos, 4 species of wrens and 16 species
of warblers:
Cravens House:
Lots of warblers
1 male GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
6 Bay-breasted Warblers
2 Nashville Warblers
2 PHILADELPHIA VIREO
1 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH
Standifer Gap Marsh:
- Marsh Wren
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Booker T Washington St Pk
- Northern Waterthrush (at back gate)
Riverwalk below Chickamuga Dam
- Northern Waterthrush (below bridge at Olan Mills)
- 1 Peregrine Falcon (railroad bridge)
Riverport
- 7 Bobolinks
Brainerd Levee
- 1 Virginia Rail
- 2 Sora
- 1 Sedge Wren
At the Cravens House on September 20 16 species of warblers were seen
including:
1male MOURNING WARBLER (was found (Dan Jacobson and Clyde Blum) west of the
Iowa monument below Cravens House, was seen again at same location on 9/23
(Libby Wolfe, Mary Lynn Buttram))
1 WILSONS WARBLER (CLyde Blum, Libby Wolfe)
1 YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER ((Clyde Blum, Dan Jacobson) powerline cut north
of lower parking lot)
David Aborn banded a Nashville Warbler at a new mist netting station at
Greenway Farms on September 25.
The Soddy Mountain hawkwatch season is in full swing. On September 25 915
Broadwings were counted with 603 in one kettle! Also seen were 1 American
Kestrel and 2 Sharp-shinned Hawks. (Jimmy Wilkerson)
The next general meeting of the Chattanooga TOS will be on October 9
7:00 PM at the Accension Luthern Church, 720 South Germantown Rd.
Get out in the Field and let me know what you see!!
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