[TN-Bird] brown-headed nuthatches in fentress county

From: Stephen Stedman <SStedman@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:30:42 -0500
Last Friday two visiting birders--David and Laura Crotser from Granger,
Indiana--found two Brown-headed Nuthatches on Oby Blevins Rd., Fentress
Co., TN.  When first found, the nuthatches appeared to be excavating a
cavity in the dead stump of a Shortleaf Pine.  David and Laura continued
to observe these nuthatches over the week-end, and yesterday they
discovered a NEST with 4 or 5 eggs in a hole in a fence post near the
site where they originally found the birds trying to excavate a cavity.
This site features about 30 oldish (12-16 inch) Shortleaf Pines along
the road and some additional scattered pines nearby; these pines have a
very plentiful cone crop.  As far as I know, this observation is the
first of BHNU for Fentress Co., TN--although two local residents stopped
and talked to the Crotsers, saying that they had had BHNUs at their
feeders occasionally in the past. This nest is almost certainly the
first for BHNU on the northern Cumberland Plateau of TN, and it may be
the northernmost sighting--and nesting--ever in TN.  Many thanks to the
Crotsers for passing along word of their outstanding find.
 
Steve Stedman
Cookeville, TN
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