[TN-Bird] Re: 2 kite species at Route 127 south of Pikeville
- From: tim jeffers <tim.a.jeffers@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:40:47 -0400
8/11/12
There were 7 Swallow-tailed Kites seen at R & D Slaughtering at 8 AM CDT
this morning.
(at least I thought they were all STKI - I'll be sure to look thru my
photos carefully!)
Bledsoe Co
Tim & Deb Jeffers
East Ridge, Hamilton Co
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 5:16 PM, fekel <fekel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> **TOS Fall Meeting and Symposium -- Oct 12-14, 2012**
> Route 127, Slaughter house area south of Pikeville
> Bledsoe Co., TN
> 2012 Aug. 11
> 9am-12:15pm
> warm and mostly clear
>
> I finally decided to drive down to the Pikeville area to see
> if I could enjoy the SWALLOW-TAILED KITEs that have been viewed
> there over the past 10 days or so. I arrived very early at the
> R&D Custom Slaughtering building and extensively drove around the
> area over the next 1 hour and 45 minutes without finding a kite.
> Returning to the parking area at the slaughter house, I scanned south
> and saw a very distant bird high in the sky that was headed in
> my direction. With its drooped wing silhouette I knew I had
> found my target. A few minutes later I was watching 2
> SWALLOW-TAILED KITEs soar low above the tree line to the south of
> the slaughter house. From time to time over the next 90 minutes
> I would lose them and made a couple of driving forays south on
> route 127 to look for them, turning around at the vocational
> technical school. On my final drive south, I managed to pull off
> before the technical school at a spot that had a large political
> campaign sign for a state representative candidate. While getting
> some photographs of the 2 SWALLOW-TAILED KITES, I was distracted
> by a smaller bird soaring with them. I stopped my photos long enough
> to check out the bird in my binoculars and to my surprise found that
> it was a MISSISSIPPI KITE. Also seen soaring in the area were a
> RED-SHOULDERED HAWK and a BROAD-WINGED HAWK. All in all a very nice
> morning of birding.
>
> Frank Fekel
> Bellevue, TN
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