[TN-Bird] Chattanooga RBA #7
- From: "Kevin A. Calhoon" <kac@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 18:05:13 -0400
This is Kevin Calhoon with the Chattanooga RBA, sponsored by the Chattanooga
Chapter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society.
This is Update Number #7 made on May 3, 2005.
Migrant passerine numbers are peaking at the Cravens House. On May 1
fourteen species of warblers were seen. (Even more impressive was the
sixteen birders that ended up on our impromptu fieldtrip!) The highlights
included:
1 Bay-breasted Warbler (FOS)
16 Blackpoll
4 Cape May
5 Chestnut-sided
2 American Redstart
8 Tennessee Warbler
2 Northern Parula
20 Yellow-rumped
9 Black-throated Green
2 Blackburnian
1 Palm
5 Black and White
1 Worm-eating
5 Hooded
Magnolia and Blue-winged Warblers were reported by some other birders.
Others:
22 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks
6 Baltimore Orioles
9 Broad-winged Hawks
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1 Red-headed Woodpecker
4 Eastern Wood Peewees
1 Blue Grosbeak
2 Tree Swallows
4 House Wrens
3 Swainson's Thrush
1 VEERY
(Kevin Calhoon)
The first White-rumped Sandpiper of the season was reported at the Brainerd
Levee behind Boyd Buchanan school on May 1. (Dan Jacobson, Clyde Blum, Judy
Newsome, Jim and Barbara Eager)
6 Bobolinks were seen at the Riverport fields on May 1. (Judy Newsome, Clyde
Blum)
Standifer Gap Marsh continues to be a great area for spring migrants. David
Patterson had 4 Bobolinks and one American Bittern on April 29.
Jonnie Sue Lyons and Harold Birch showed up for the TOS Baylor fieldtrip on
April 30 despite the rain and had some good birds including:
Whip-poor-will, Northern Waterthrush, 5 Short-billed Dowtichers and several
Semipalmated Plovers and Sandpipers.
Kyle Waggener finally found a Prothonotary Warbler along the boardwalk at
the Chattanooga Nature Center this week, a historic breeding area for them.
They were not observed here at all last year.
Here is a message from Harold Sharp about Peregrine Falcon nesting:
This morning at 10;15am (5/2),the young chick "CD" was in the right window
and Dreama could be seen feeding the other chick or chicks in the scrape.
"CD" walked out of the scrape on Friday but we have not seen the other chick
or chicks as they are still in the scrape, but we have observed Dreama
feeding them. If all goes as we have planned,(which it never does), we can
expect "CD" to fly about May 20 on his 40th day of birth.
The National Migration Count will be held on May 14. For more information
call me at 423-785-4070.
The next general meeting of the Chattanooga TOS will be on May 12 at 7:00 PM
at Accension Luthern Church, 720 South Germantown Rd.
Get out in the Field and let me know what you see!
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