[TN-Bird] Scissor-tailed flycatchers in S. Pittsburg
- From: Jerry Ingles <jeingles@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: TN-BIRD@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 12:55:34 -0500 (CDT)
A quick drive through South Pittsburg this morning revealed a pair of
Scissor-tailed flycatchers very near last year's nest site at the high
school athletic fields, and an easily located nest again on a field light
tower.
The completed or nearly completed nest (I did not have the time to
carefully observe behavior at the nest) is along the Railroad Avenue side
of the football/track facility. Railroad Avenue is the first street east
of the main street, and the nest is on the southeastern* corner of the
platform of the northmost light tower, right at the northern end of the
bleachers.
I am headed north tomorrow and I hope others will be able to monitor, as it
were, nesting activity. The birds are fun to watch, especially when the
female (is the male excessively proud?) follows mowers at the baseball
field on the east side of Railroad Avenue.
*More precisely speaking, the main street runs from northeast to southwest,
thus so does Railroad Avenue, but I've pretended that it's north/south for
the purpose of simplicity).
DeLorme p. 23, southeastern corner of the page.
Jerry Ingles
Sewanee, TN
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I have been lucky enough to find an incredibly wonderful bird.
Jerry L. Ingles
Sewanee, TN
jeingles@xxxxxxxxxxx
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