[TN-Bird] Willow Flycatcher, Loggerhead Shrike, Lewis County

From: Bill Pulliam <bb551@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "TNBird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Birds" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:31:08 -0500
I was surprised to hear a single Willow Flycatcher singing this  
morning (6/10/2010) in a very unexpected spot.  I have had them in  
Lewis County during migration on occasion, but even then I think I  
have actually heard more Alders than Willows in the spring.  This was  
my first encounter in the presumptive nesting season here.  The bird  
was along Howard Switch Road in south-central Lewis County.  The road  
runs along a ridgeline which slopes off in both directions.  The  
flycatcher was singing in a patch of young successional scrubby  
saplings at the very head of one of the strongly-sloping hollows  
leading down from the ridge.  The brush includes some sycamores and  
maples, but did not really look "riparian".  I was not able to see  
the bird, but I heard it sing about a half dozen times, each time  
trying to convince myself unsuccessfully that it really must be  
something else.  I have not ever lived anywhere that this is a common  
breeder, so I do not necessarily have a good sense of the full range  
of the nesting habitat of the species, but this still is not a place  
I would have looked for it.

In other news, two days ago (6/08/2010) I found a pair of Loggerhead  
Shrikes near the eastern terminus of Newburg Road close to Highway 20  
in east-central Lewis County (Amish country, open barrens), my first  
record of "probable" (by Atlas standards) breeding for this species  
in the county since I moved here in 2002.

Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
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[TN-Bird] Willow Flycatcher, Loggerhead Shrike, Lewis County

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