[TN-Bird] Chimney Swifts - Nashville (and a couple late posts other birds)

From: "Scott Somershoe" <Scott.Somershoe@xxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:56:29 -0500
I didn't just have my first chimney swifts of the year last night, I had a big 
flock of them!  On Sunday evening I was in downtown Nashville, right about 
dusk, and we had a flock of at least 200-250 chimney swifts flying around and 
circling.  We didn't have time to watch where they went/roosted.  It was dark 
in about 10 min, so I didn't think they were going far.  We had the birds from 
the parking lot at 7th and Commerce, behind the HUME Fogg school.  There is a 
large chimney located at the back of the school, which might be where they were 
roosting.  Quite an impressive flock of swifts in spring!  It felt like a fall 
evening, both with the large number of birds and the very warm temps.

I never got to post on a couple early arrivals over the last month, so here is 
a very belated report:
10 March - 2 Cliff Swallows on Nickajack Lake a couple miles north of the dam.  
Only one earlier record in Robinson (1990).
Earlier in the day, Jonnie Sue Lyons and I had a flock of 75+ Wilson's Snipe a 
few miles from Nickajack Dam near a bald eagle nest.

19 March - 1 Louisiana Waterthrush in Williamson Co, near Bethesda.  Melinda 
Welton had a bird on the 17th, but this was still a fairly early record this 
year.

24 March - several Northern Rough-winged Swallows on Percy Priest Lake - all in 
Rutherford Co.

26 March - Robco Lake - I had a calling Gray Catbird while viewing the 
Red-necked Grebe
                TVA Lakes - 2 Black-necked Stilts, Forster's Tern, and one 
Spotted Sandpiper.  
                
Good birding!
Scott Somershoe

State Ornithologist
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
P.O. Box 40747
Nashville, TN 37204
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615-781-6654 (fax)

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