[TN-Bird] Pair of Swainson's thrushes (Kingston|Roane Co.)
- From: "Raincrow" <raincrow@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 08:26:31 -0700
I haven't had as much time as I wanted for backyard birding this spring, but
the Swainson's thrush who's been singing up in the woods for the last 3 days
was joined this morning by a second one singing from a princess tree 25 feet
from my front deck, unimpressed by a cat fight that took place almost at the
base of the tree, and equally unimpressed by the loudly screaming human who
rushed to break up the fight. Unfortunately, the altercation silenced a
Rose-breasted grosbeak before I could spot him. A pair of them came to my
feeders about 3 weeks ago.
I've also had a most glorious male Magnolia warbler and a first spring female
Bay-breasted warbler picking through the new shoots on my hedgerow of young
pines; a Black-and-white warbler; a Hooded warbler; Yellow-rump (myrtle)
warblers; and at least one adult Bay-breasted warbler.
Saw my first Eastern kingbird yesterday; a pair of Field sparrows regularly
flit around my "grassland" sector of the yard; the Summer tanagers, Phoebes,
Common yellowthroats, and Indigo buntings are busy; the Chimney swifts are
flitting everywhere; I heard a Great horned owl 2 nights ago; and I have every
standard local species of woodpecker except Red heads.
Interestingly, a pair of Kingfishers have lately been routine visitors to the
old dead oaks across the road from my driveway, and I very often see them
sitting on the phone lines about 200 feet down the road and closer to the lake.
I'm not sure what they're suddenly doing up here, 0.5 miles or so from the
lake. There's a small, deep perennial spring another 0.1 mi. down the road from
my house, but I've not yet seen them go in that direction. So I'm adding
Kingfishers to my yard list!
My housemate was excited to find a large olive-backed, bright-yellow-breasted
bird eating wild strawberries not far from the edge of the driveway -- his
first Chat, whom I've heard for some weeks but not been lucky enough to see.
No Great crested flycatcher yet. I keep hoping for Blue grosbeaks someday.
Happy spring migration, everyone.
Liz Singley
Kingston (southa river)
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