[tn-bird] NE Tennessee
- From: Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:54:38 -0700 (PDT)
Hi again,
This weekend Tracey Everson, Dr. Gary Wallace and I led a short bird
trip at Warrior's Path SP for their Spring weekend.
Since we were leading beginning birders - some of whom had no optics,
and one who was 5 years-old - we neither covered much ground, nor saw
a whole lot. But we did have both Baltimore and Orchard Orioles,
including a pair of the latter. We saw at least 200 migrating Blue
Jays and watched a pair of Tufted Titmice carrying food to a hold 30
feet up in a tree. We never heard younguns, but we presume there to
have been some there because of this behavior.
A short bike trip away from the park to the mountain bike trails
netted Tracey and I our first Indigo Bunting of the year, and a night
hike along the river allowed us to hear something that I'm *pretty
sure* was a Whip-Poor-Will, though it called just once, and I've
never heard a Whip do that before. It was also just a little bit
garbled. Can't think of anything else that could be, though.
A quick, mid-day trip to Roan Mountain netted few species, but
terrific views and nice hiking. We saw MANY Golden-crowned Kinglets,
a Raven, a few Red-breasted Nuthatches and little else. We did see
about 2 dozen Barn Swallows all heading in a roughly NW direction,
and assume them to have been migrating over, as none seemed to be
feeding or turning back.
Good day!
charlie
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Charlie Muise, Senior Naturalist
Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont
Townsend, TN lat 35 deg, 38'23" long 83 deg, 41'22"
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