[TN-Bird] Norris Songbird Trail - warblers, hawks & mystery vocalist
- From: "Carole Gobert" <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:57:24 -0400
Late Saturday morning, Norris Songbird Trail, Anderson County, Tennessee.
Highlights:
Heard singing Northern Parula and Black & White Warbler as I was exiting my
car in the parking lot at the end of the Songbird Trail closest to Norris
Dam. Got a glimpse of the Black & White but by the time I grabbed my
binoculars it had flown, never to be heard or seen again. The Northern
Parula, on the other hand, was singing incessantly in the same location I
saw it last weekend--a short distance down the trail from the parking lot
and on the river side. Try as I might, however, I couldn't spot it this
Saturday.
I did manage to find a Yellow-Throated Warbler; also two Broad-Winged Hawks
flying upriver (or is it downriver?) toward Norris Dam. They got my
attention by giving that two-syllable whistle as they passed overhead. I
thought hmm, that sounds familiar. Oh, right, it's either a broad-winged
hawk or a Bluejay, probably a Bluejay, but I looked up and there were the
two hawks. They circled a few times giving me a chance to see the broad
dark tail band.
Tree Swallows, including a pair on a nestbox, the female brown with just a
bit of blue at the top of her head. Handsome couple.
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher. 2 Brown Thrashers foraging along the trail.
My FOS Chimney Swift flew over. SOS (second of season) later that same day
at home in Knox County.
Finally, the mystery songster--another bird I could hear but couldn't see.
This bird was singing from high in a tree (not sure which tree, but up there
somewhere), kept repeating a 3-syllable song that reminded me of an
Olive-Sided Flycatcher's "Quick, three beers" except it wasn't the clear
whistled song of the flycatcher. Same rhythm/cadence & melody but lower
pitched, throaty, almost guttural. If a scarlet tanager sounds like a robin
with a sore throat, then this bird sounded like an olive-sided flycatcher
with a sore throat and a bad head cold. After scanning tree tops for 5
minutes, I started hearing the bird from a greater distance (a much greater
distance). So hopefully my description of this bird's song will cause
someone to say, Ah, she was listening to a __________________. Any
suggestions will be appreciated.
Carole Gobert, Knox County, Tennessee
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