[TN-Bird] Re: tn-bird Digest V8 #144
- From: Ginger Williams <ginger2tn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:02:55 -0400
I need help identifying a bird I saw at my feeder. It was the color of a
titmouse, slightly larger than a titmouse, had no tuft, very black eyes and
they appeared larger than average, black beak and blush of red under wing.
Looked in my bird id book but did not find one to match.
Ginger Williams
Knoxville, TN
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> TN-Bird Net Digest Messages------------------------------------
> tn-bird Digest Wed, 27 May 2009 Volume: 08 Issue: 144
>
> In This Issue:
> [TN-Bird] Flycatchers and Kingbirds - Shelby Co.
> [TN-Bird] Shorebird Passage and ducks - Memphis
> [TN-Bird] Knox County birding May 26
>
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> From: OLCOOT1@xxxxx
> omDate: Wed, 27 May 2009 07:41:58 EDT
> Subject: [TN-Bird] Flycatchers and Kingbirds - Shelby Co.
>
> May 23-24-25-26, 2009
> Shelby Co. TN
>
> The male Scissor-tailed Flycatcher on President's Island has been joined by
> the female and she was in a hurry. The nest was mostly finished in 3 days
> and by the 26 th she was laying eggs. The original hybrid female showed up
> at her regular nesting site on the island but not seen the last few days.
> A single Western Kingbird is being consistently seen near the causeway to
> the island and two nests were being constructed in the McLemore / Trigg
> area.
> A single Western Kingbird has finally shown up at the Allen Steam Plant,
> while both a pure Western and a hybrid female are building nests at the
> Frayser Location. For the third year one of the hybrids started a nest in
> the exact same location on a pole but again has abandoned the site only to
> relocate??
>
> Six birds have been seen at the Levee road area with two carrying nesting
> material over the weekend and a single bird was seen at the new Chelsea
> location reported last year.
>
> Six active locations again in Memphis, how many more?
> Good Birding !!!
>
> Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
> 6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
> Bartlett, TN 38135
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> From: OLCOOT1@xxxxx
> omDate: Wed, 27 May 2009 08:07:46 EDT
> Subject: [TN-Bird] Shorebird Passage and ducks - Memphis
>
> May 23-24-25-26, 2009
> Ensley Bottoms
> Shelby Co. TN
>
> The ebb and flow of migration brings changes every day with the numbers of
> Semipalmated Sandpipers fluctuating but steadily downward while the
> White-rumped number rises. Other characters are mostly late and lingering
> the past few days, like the occasional Lesser Yellowlegs, a single injured
> Solitary Sandpiper, 3 Semipalmated Plovers (sweet), now only a single full
> dress
> Dunlin, and 3 Spotted Sandpipers (maybe another possible nesting in the
> works), some days you can't find a Least but they are always somewhere and
> the most unexpected Wind Bird, a single Pectoral Sandpiper on Sunday and
> Monday. Of course Black-necked Stilt and Killdeer are nesting everywhere.
>
> Just four more weeks and we will be greeting the first returns of these
> northern nesters.............
>
> Lingering and some possible nesters like the Black-bellied Whistling Ducks,
> Shovelers, Blue-winged Teal and just summer vacationers like the 4 Lesser
> Scaup and 3 Ruddy Ducks which are mixed in with lots of Mallards tending
> broods along with baby Wood Ducks and Hooded Mergansers.
>
> Good Birding !!!
> Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
> 6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
> Bartlett, TN 38135
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> heart to the heavens.
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>
> From: Carole Gobert cpgobert
> @hotmail.com>Subject: [TN-Bird] Knox County birding May 26
> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 11:27:45 -0400
>
> Yesterday morning, May 26, I did a little birding in west Knox County. At
> the Cove in Concord Park I was surprised to find a Pied-Billed Grebe. It
> seemed a bit late for a grebe. I was also treated to a close look at two
> Baltimore Orioles together in a low shrub as well as a singing Orchard
> Oriole and Brown-Headed Nuthatch high in the trees.
>
>
> From there I took a short walk on the paved trail at the Turkey Creek
> Wetland. It was a bit shorter than I meant it to be because the gravel
> road leading from the greenway trail out to Parkside Drive (the short-cut
> people take to walk to Wal-Mart) was completely blocked off by a
> construction crew with bulldozers. I did manage to hear two warblers
> (Common Yellowthroat and Yellow Warbler) and a Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher above
> the noise of the heavy equipment and the truck traffic on I-40. Mark
> Campen and the Isaac Walton League are doing good work at Turkey Creek but
> they can't stop "progress" and what with all the construction going on both
> at Baptist and now just off the wetland trail, it's been kind of depressing
> going there lately.
>
>
> Carole Gobert, Knoxville, Knox County, TN
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