At the Wolf River Trail off Humphreys Blvd. in Shelby Co. today I saw (gulp)?a Black-throated Blue Warbler,?in a mixed flock of migrants, including four American Redstarts, two Blue-winged Warblers, several Magnolia Warblers, one Gray Catbird, a Gray-cheeked?Thrush and a Swainson's Thrush. There were several Carolina Chickadees, Tufted Titmouse and at least one White-eyed Vireo there too, and?I heard American Goldfinches above as I was focused on the Black-throated.? I was at the "east trailhead" of the trail; the parking lot for this end is on the north side of Humpreys Blvd., west of Germantown Pkwy. There's a?gas boosting station right there where the?drive to the parking lot comes off Humphreys. I had walked west on the paved trail beside the river, into the woods, and just past the circle of benches.? It was a pretty drab female. It was drooping its wings like the redstarts, but clearly not a redstart. It wasn't fanning?the tail.?The upperparts were pretty uniformly grayish, maybe with a hint of brown and even some olive across the nape, but no blue.?There was a clear though small light wing patch at the base of the primaries, and a thin light supercilium in an otherwise plain face. The throat was light, yellowish-buff, the sides and breast?buffy, belly paler, almost white;?undertail coverts were yellowish again, and the undertail was?pale gray, with darker but not black corners. When I got home the?picture of a first fall female in Peterson's Warblers is the closest picture I found, though the cheek didn't show as much as that photo.?It was feeding at mid-level in the trees between the path and the river. Also, at the other end of the trail, the west trailhead, farther west down Humphreys Blvd. (just east of Kirby), I saw (gulp, again) a Golden-winged Warbler with more American Redstarts, a Black-and-White Warbler, White-eyed Vireos, and Summer Tanagers. Brown Thrasher, Carolina Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, two Carolina Wrens, and another Magnolia Warbler rounded out that flock; I had just crossed the footbridge when I saw this bunch. Blue Jay (5-6?), Downy Woodpecker (3), Hairy Woodpecker (1), Northern Mockingbird (2), European Starling (dozen?), Red-bellied Woodpecker (1), Mourning?Dove (2), one Plieated Woodpecker (heard). Probably leaving out something....I was too excited.... Gail King near Poplar and Yates, Shelby County??? ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________