[TN-Bird] Ruffed Grouse (Greene Co., TN)
- From: Don Miller <raincrow@xxxxxxx>
- To: TN-Bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 22:44:56 -0400
19 May 2003
Viking Mountain
Greene County
While birding our way to the top of Viking Mountain this morning, Alice
Loftin, Linda Northrop, and I observed an adult female Ruffed Grouse
with five downy young feeding alongside the road about 0.1 mile below
Camp Creek Bald.
Viking Mountain is located astride the Tennessee-North Carolina line.
Camp Creek Bald caps the top of the mountain between Blackstack Cliffs
to the northeast and the summit a short distance to the southwest and
extends downward on the Tennessee side of the slope for 100-200 feet.
The elevation at the summit is approximately 4800 feet. The elevation
where the grouse were seen is about 4700 feet, and the area consists of
a moderately open birch-beech-maple transition zone with extensive
rhododendron thickets and other types of understory.
Also present on the mountain were good numbers of about a half dozen
species of warblers, along with various other summer and permanent
residents.
Don Miller,
Greeneville, TN
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