[TN-Bird] Hermit Thrush in the Smokies

  • From: "tom howe" <blountbirder@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 18:24:54 -0400

Sevier Co., TN 
Swain & Haywood Co., NC

 

During my forays along the Appalachian Trail over this holiday between Ice
Water Springs and Mt Guyot, plus Clingman's Dome on June 26, I counted 42
singing Hermit Thrushes. There were count points every 250 meters, so the
total distance covered was c. 10 miles. There were also many more heard
during the afternoons while hiking from shelter to shelter. Considering
there are roughly 35 miles of spruce-fir forests in the high elevations that
makes for quite a few Hermit Thrushes. It was only about 4 years ago I heard
my first ones near Mt Sterling. I haven't analyzed the data yet, but believe
the thrushes were equally distributed on both sides of the state line.

 

Get out and enjoy it!

 

Tom Howe

Alcoa

 



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