[TN-Bird] Vesper Sparrows, Rusty Blackbirds - Robertson Co.

From: Tony Lance <tonylance@xxxxxxx>
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:24:38 -0600
Jan Shaw joined me this morning for some birding in the Cedar Hill  
area. My initial hope was to find the three shrikes I've been seeing  
since November, but they appear to have gone. That's not surprising:  
they left last year around the same time. But we had a good outing  
nonetheless. At the first location (the Van Hook farm) we had a flock  
of 20+ White-crowned Sparrows. A short distance down the road we saw  
four birds fly up to a fence and were very pleased to see they were  
Vesper Sparrows. A drive past Wessyngton turned up a huge flock of  
Turkeys (100+). From there we went to Cedar Hill Swamp where we had  
about 10 Red-headed Woodpeckers, a couple of Red-shouldered Hawks  
and, very conservatively, 20+ Rusty Blackbirds turning over leaves in  
the wet woodlands. At several places along the way we saw groups of  
Horned Larks and tallied 50 by the time we finished. As has been the  
case for me all season, we saw no pipits or Savannah Sparrows, both  
of which have been common in years past.

Tony Lance
Springfield, TN


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