[TN-Bird] Rutherford and Williamson County birds

From: "Scott Somershoe" <Scott.Somershoe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:02:00 -0500
I spent a solid 4 hours and some 70+ miles cycling around Rutherford and =
Williamson Counties Saturday morning.  Beautiful weather for a long ride =
and a few good birds and FOS's were found.  In no specific county (as I =
honestly couldn't tell you where most were seen), I heard/saw:

Eastern Kingbirds: in 9 places and one mockingbird that about fooled me
Louisiana Waterthrushes: 2
Blue Grosbeak: 1 FOS
Common Yellowthroat: 1
Yellow-thr Vireo: 1
Blue-winged Warbler: 1 on Pulltight road in Williamson County (Pulltight =
is a long hill, so I was going slow and could hear birds well, as well as =
I can over my heart thumping in my head)
Yellow-rumped Warbler: 1
Kentucky Warbler: 1 FOS (on another long hill)
Prairie Warbler: 1
Pine Warbler: 1=20
Scarlet Tanager:1=20
One crow attacking a turkey vulture.  Very odd.

Not many of anything, but a good variety of birds.  I would have picked up =
more individuals if I was going slower.  Riding fast with any wind makes =
hearing birds kind of tough.  Only true good birding time is when I'm =
going slower uphill.

On Friday afternoon, I picked up a couple new yard birds after work, one =
of which was fairly unexpected.  I had  2 male bobwhite's calling in the =
short grass horse pasture behind our house.  I also had a White-eyed Vireo =
singing away.  Nice additions to my suburban yard.

Cheers,
   Scott

State Ornithologist
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
P.O. Box 40747
Nashville, TN 37204
615-781-6653 (o)
601-868-0101 (cell)
615-781-6654 (fax)

"Keeping the rubber side down." -SGS
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