[TN-Bird] Re: Chipping Sparrow
- From: "Stephen Stedman" <SStedman@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "David & Gloria Patterson" <dgpatterson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:38:05 -0600
David, Dean, and others,
If you access the Historical Results feature of the Audubon CBC website
and if you request the program to list all Chipping Sparrrow totals by
year for Tennessee for 1985 to 2005, you will be shown a table revealing
that on TN CBCs Chippers have increased way more than dramatically on
those CBCs from 1985-2005, going from numbers mainly in double digits in
the mid-1980s to nearly 900 in December 2005 (and the number this year
will exceed 1000).
This increase may show only that Chippers are staying later into "fall"
than they used to stay rather than that they have truly increased in
wintering numbers over the years; a late winter count of some sort like
the GBBC would be needed to reveal if greater overwintering is in fact
happening.
Steve Stedman
Cookeville, TN
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On Behalf Of K Dean EDWARDS
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 1:55 PM
To: David & Gloria Patterson
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Subject: [TN-Bird] Re: Chipping Sparrow
I would say Chipping Sparrows are certainly "local" in East TN in winter
but where they are found, they are usually in fairly large flocks.
Warmer winters are probably better for finding them than colder ones and
numbers do seem to fluctuate year-to- year.
The high count for Chippers on the Knoxville CBC is 130 in 1996.
Totals starting in 1990 are:
11, 4, 12, 9, 101, 8, 130, 70, 1, 2, 30, 36, 35, 3, 118, 127.
The past 2 years we have nearly equaled the high with 118 and 127,
respectively. The majority of those were in 3 large flocks in the
Louisville area of Blount Co. numbering from 20-40 birds each.
One of the flocks hangs around the Jackson Bend neighborhood off of
Rankin Ferry Road, another around the neighborhood on Ridge Water Rd off
of Gravelly Hills Rd, and the other around the Phelps Dairy farm on
Lowe's Ferry Rd.
Most winters there is a small flock (about 10) that hangs around the
Pellisssippi State campus in Knox Co.
I've regularly found a flock of up to 30-40 Chippers in Dutch Valley in
Anderson Co. on the Norris CBC around a church parking lot... forget the
name of the church but it's white with a graveyard in back with a
monument to several victims of a mining accident.
Growing up, there was always a flock of 10-20 Chippers that overwintered
on my Grandparents' farm in Claiborne Co.
I don't know of any reliable wintering spots in Jefferson Co.
They are out there but very scattered and local. One common theme with
all the spots I mentioned above are large areas of short grass... lawns,
heavily grazed pastures, and such.
Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, David & Gloria Patterson wrote:
> Houston Lane, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, TN February 16, 2006 A=20
> number of postings on TN-Bird, and flags on e-bird, indicate that=20
> Chipping Sparrow is notable in winter in East Tennessee
>
> We can see up to 50 or so Chipping Sparrows almost any winter day on=20
> Houston Lane (about 1/2 mile, about 12 houses), up to 12 - 20 on our
feeders.
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> Roger Patterson has 12 or so many days at his feeder, LaFayette, GA
>
> David and Gloria Patterson
> Chattanooga
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