[TN-Bird] Knox County creeper, red-breasted nuthatch, blue-headed vireo, purple finch

From: Carole Gobert <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tennessee Bird List <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 14:12:03 -0400
A great day in my west Knox County yard after a bad start to the morning.  
Couldn't get back to sleep after twice cleaning up cat vomit from the carpet 
around 3 a.m.  Woke up after 10 and my electricity was off.  Went out on the 
back deck to count birds without my morning coffee.  Things were dead for about 
half an hour with only 7 common species found.  Then the electricity came back 
on, I made a pot of coffee and things really picked up in the yard.  
 
I ended up counting for nearly 2 hours; every time I'd think of going inside 
something new would show up.
 
First there was the Brown Creeper, then a Red-breasted Nuthatch (both in the 
wild cherry tree where the suet feeder is hanging, though neither of these 
species went for the suet.)  A bit later a female or immature Purple Finch on 
the sunflower seed feeder.  (I've never had more than one Purple Finch at a 
time)  All three were FOS for me.
 
A Blue-headed Vireo (new yard bird) put in a brief appearance in the pine tree 
as did two Red-winged Blackbirds.  The vireo and a Black Vulture were both new 
yard birds for me.   Flocks of robins flew around the neighborhood.
 
In all, 27 species.... not a high count, you might think, but probably the most 
I've ever found from the yard.
 
10:50 a.m. - 1 pm

Black Vulture     1
Mourning Dove     5
Red-bellied Woodpecker     1
Downy Woodpecker     2
Blue-headed Vireo     1
Blue Jay     3
American Crow     7
Carolina Chickadee     2
Tufted Titmouse     2
Red-breasted Nuthatch     1
White-breasted Nuthatch     1
Brown Creeper     1
Carolina Wren     1
Eastern Bluebird     1
American Robin     50
Northern Mockingbird     2
Brown Thrasher     1
Cedar Waxwing     4
Eastern Towhee     1
Song Sparrow     1
White-throated Sparrow     4
Northern Cardinal     3
Red-winged Blackbird     2
Common Grackle     1
Purple Finch     1
House Finch     7
American Goldfinch     5

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org
 
Carole Gobert, Knoxville, TN
 
 
 
                                          
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[TN-Bird] Knox County creeper, red-breasted nuthatch, blue-headed vireo, purple finch

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