Cheatham Co., TN
2015 Jan. 16
Unable to go on the more time consuming NTOS trip to Robertson Co.,
I joined Mike Smith and Phillip Casteel for a trip to Cheatham Co.
on the morning of Saturday, January 16.
A before sunrise stop at the Gossett Track State Park, which is
not far from the Narrows of the Harpeth, produced displaying
AMERICAN WOODCOCK and a calling GREAT HORNED OWL. However,
perhaps the most usual sightings were at the Cheatham Dam
Recreation Area where we found large flocks of several species.
Arriving in the recreation area, we stopped along the road to
scan the open agricultural field. We initially spotted a single
PALM WARBLER, and thought ourselves lucky, but soon found another
and then another feeding in the short grass between the field
and the road. As we continued to scan the grass, we kept upping
the total until we saw 9 PALM WARBLERs together as they flew
across the road. What a unexpected winter sight. Farther along
behind the pine woods in the large agricultural field there was
a flock of 18 NORTHERN FLICKERs, nearly all of which were feeding
on the open ground. And finally, in the pine woods themselves was
a different huge flock, estimated at 150 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERs.
Later, many of them few out of the woods and were spread along
the road. Thus, we certainly had an unusual day of large winter
flocks.
Frank Fekel
Bellevue, TN
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