[TN-Bird] Re: The Nashville Purple Martin roost is no longer active
- From: Joshua Stevenson <ifihadastick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Melinda Welton <weltonmj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Joe Siegrist <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 15:43:07 +0000
Melinda/TNbird folks,
Now would be a good time for me to mention what I saw earlier this week while
at the Titans Practise field Monday night, August 7, between about 6 to 8pm.
Purple Martin's started to swarm around the Titans field and around the whole
Metro Center area, increasing in density until an enormous number of them
actually rested on the cabling structures that form a grid pattern on the big
"bubble building" that the Titans Practise in. Attached you will see a photo
taken from my cellphone. The black does after all Purple Martins. Admittedly
I'm not a pro at estimating large numbers but my safe bet for total count that
I observed over the hours was 20,000. By 8:30, the entire flock moved on and
I'm not 100% sure but I believe went in the northerly direction. They did not
roost on the building, only rested for a while.
Joshua Stevenson
Nashville, TN
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From: Melinda Welton
Sent: Friday, August 11, 10:31 AM
Subject: [TN-Bird] Re: The Nashville Purple Martin roost is no longer active
To: Joe Siegrist
Cc: tn-bird
Joe, There has been a huge starling roost at Metro Center for several years.
I’ll get up there and see what’s going on this year. Melinda Welton Nashville,
TN > On Aug 11, 2017, at 8:39 AM, Joe Siegrist wrote: > > Melinda, > > With our
radar tools we are still seeing a radar signature for a roost northwest of its
old position. It appears to be in the vicinity of Metrocenter/North Rhodes Park
and Buena Vista Heights
https://www.google.com/maps/place/36%C2%B011'16.8%22N+86%C2%B048'33.1%22W/@36.1850124,-86.8146672,4187m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d36.188!4d-86.8092
While the radar data can't get an exact fix on the ground, you should be
able to see birds coming in if you drive around that area at sunset. I hope you
can get some people out there to hunt it down! It's somewhere in that bend of
the Cumberland River. > > Good luck with the treasure hunt, > > Joe Siegrist,
President > Purple Martin Conservation Association > > > > -----Original
Message----- > From: Melinda Welton [
mailto:weltonmj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] ;> Sent:
Thursday, August 10, 2017 6:33 PM > To: tn-bird > Cc: Joe Siegrist > Subject:
The Nashville Purple Martin roost is no longer active > > The Nashville roost
isn’t forming this year. It was first detected on NEXRAD radar in 2004 by the
Purple Martin Conservation Society, and Scott Somershoe found the exact
location in 2010. > > On July 25th I reported that a road was being constructed
through the roost. On Aug 1st I went out to the area and saw one individual
Purple Martin near the river. On the 8th from the walking bridge several of us
saw around 4,000 birds in the sky and at sunset they headed in the direction of
the roost. Last night, the 9th, we went to the roost saw not a single
individual in the sky!! On August 10th, 2016 David Hanni took timed photographs
and estimated there to be 60,000 birds entering that roost. > > This morning
David Hanni and I looked at NEXRAD to see where the birds might have gone. We
saw nothing in Middle TN, but there looks to be an ENORMOUS dispersing roost on
the Mississippi near Tiptonville. Mark Greene said he’d go out in the next
couple of days and see what the birds are. Interestingly, about 10 years ago
there was a roost on a peninsula on the Mississippi with ~500,000 Purple
Martins! > > This is the radar loop from dawn this morning. >
http://weather.rap.ucar.edu/radar/displayRad.php?icao=KHPX∏=bref1&bkgr=gray&endDate=20170810&endTime=12&duration=2.
We’re going to keep an eye on the Nashville downtown for the next couple
of weeks, but I’m not optimistic. > > Melinda Welton > Nashville > ======OTES
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