[TN-Bird] migrants moving - Knox

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To: Tennessee Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:07:22 -0400 (EDT)
Took the dog out at 5:30AM Monday morning (12 Sept) after a brief rain 
shower and heard a decent flight of Swainson's Thrushes and a few 
warbler-like calls passing overhead along the ridge.  Things were still 
moving at 7AM but the fog was too think and backlit to see more than 
warbler-like silhouettes working the treetops.

When I left for work shortly after 8AM, things were still moving 
overhead in the fog, but I noticed they were heading west, across
the ridge instead of along it.  Heard some warbler-like calls, 
Swainson's and Wood Thrushes, and 1 DICKCISSEL.  This was probably 
what folks on the Carolinas listserv call a corrective migration... 
birds moving during the early daylight hours in a non-north/south 
direction to correct for drifting off their intended course during
the night... perhaps pushed east as that bit of rain passed through.

Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN


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