[TN-Bird] Woodcocks in Shady Valley
- From: Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: 1-A TN-Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 21:49:45 -0400
Shady Valley
Johnson Co. TN
Elev. 2,800 feet
24 Feb. 2003
Monday evening Chris O'Bryan and I birded at the end of the day in
Tennessee's highest mountain valley. We had three American Woodcocks and
possibly four calling from the ground.
At one point three were displaying with their advertising flights and sky
singing with their falling-leaf flight.
While the species has been known to winter in the valley, it makes one
wonder if they did this year with all the snow and freezing weather.
Spring is well underway. We had a flock of 1,000 mainly adult Red-winged
Blackbirds. This is a new maximum number for that species in Shady.
Spotted Salamanders have come to the woodland ponds to breed and Wood Frogs
are making noisy with their Mallard-type voices at wet areas. Spring Peepers
are out and about at this elevation.
Let's go birding...
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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