[TN-Bird] Smyrna, TN - Lark Sparrow

From: "Scott Somershoe" <Scott.Somershoe@xxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 09:07:57 -0500
I was out for a bike ride this morning and about 2 miles from my house (Smyrna, 
Rutherford Co.), while I was going relatively slow up a hill on Rocky Fork Rd, 
I heard a Lark Sparrow singing.  Of course, I looped back and stood on the side 
of the road and listened to him for a few minutes.

Three or four years ago I flushed a sparrow with white outer tail feathers from 
this exact spot.  I never went back to see if a Lark Sparrow was there, but I 
think about it nearly every time I ride by that spot (which is on 80% of my 
rides and is probably a couple hundred times by now) and wonder if it really 
was a Lark Sparrow.  The habitat seemed good for Lark Sparrows, minus several 
houses but they have massive front yards (100+m long) that are full of 
wildflowers and native grasses that they rarely mow.  

I guess I'll be going back early one morning to hear him sing again.

Good biking and birding!
Scott Somershoe



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