[TN-Bird] Orchard Oriole in Shady Valley, TN
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "TN-birds" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:57:13 -0400
John and Lorrie Shumate have reported the first Orchard Oriole in Shady Valley,
Johnson County, since the Tennessee Ornithological Society Foray, held there
29-30-31 May 1976 when two were reported.
Their discovery of the first Orchard Oriole in Shady in nearly 30 years is an
excellent record, considering the frequency of birding that goes on there !
John and I listed this as a rare summer resident in our 1999 book on the birds
of the valley. Ken Dubke reported three on a foray he sponsored in Shady
Valley 6-7 Jun 1964, when two of the birds were carrying food into a yellow
poplar at 2,580 ft. elevation.
This is a specie which is usually below 2,500 feet elevation throughout the
Blue Ridge Mountains. At Shady Valley, in the western most part of the Blue
Ridge along the Virginia-Tennessee border, John found this bird at 2,800 feet.
Chuck Nicholson wrote in the Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Tennessee that it
was found up to about 800 meters (2,625 feet).
John and Lorrie said their bird was in first summer plumage.
Let's go birding.....
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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