[TN-Bird] Re: [Bristol-Birds] Blue-winged Warbler at Hampton Creek Cove State Natural Area
- From: James Neves <jamesneves@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: sunfish0501@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 21:20:57 -0400
Hi Rick,
The bird seen this past weekend on multiple occasions by multiple observers
(Nora Schubert, Dave Kirschke, possibly Rick Knight, and myself, among
others) that singing the typical type 1 BWWA song in that exact area of HCC
was a phenotypic GWWA. I thought you'd like to know.
James Neves
Athens, GA
Director Roan Mountain Spring Naturalists Rally
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Rick Phillips <sunfish0501@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hampton Creek Cove State Natural Area (Roan Mountain)
> Carter County, Tennessee
> May 10, 2012
>
> I was photographing birds this morning at Hampton Creek Cove State Natural
> Area, at the base of Roan Mountain in Carter County Tennessee. For a good
> thirty minutes I listened to a bird singing a typical Type I Blue-winged
> Warbler song (beee-buzzzzzz). I'm familiar with the songs of the
> Golden-winged Warbler (which I also heard this morning) and Blue-winged
> Warbler. I would call it 100% Blue-winged, but never actually got a look at
> the bird. Golden-winged Warblers occur regularly in this area, but both the
> Blue-winged Warbler and hybrids have been observed here. The bird was along
> the right side of the entrance road between the old house ruins and the
> first big, red gate you encounter as you follow the trail up into the cove.
> Habitat was open with small trees and scattered blackberry.
>
> Rick
>
> --
> Rick Phillips
> Kingsport, Tennessee
>
>
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