[TN-Bird] Loess Bluffs and Sand Creek Warblers

From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:55:08 -0400 (EDT)
April 21, 2011
Lauderdale Co. TN
 
Heavy clouds and breezy winds did not bode well for a repeat  of the 31 
warbler species, Mark Greene, Mike Todd and I found before noon one  May Day a 
few years back. Today, it was just me and my Song Finder running the  loess 
soil bluffs and walking up, canyon like sandy creeks that slice into  these, 
almost vertical, bluffs.
 
After searching the winding narrow roads on top and at the  bottom of the 
bluffs and garnering just a few pockets of birds in mixed but  quiet flocks. 
I hit the mother load walking back into the sand bottomed washes.  Here out 
of the wind, silent warblers fed with scattered vireos,  tanagers and 
Indigos. 
 
Six and a half hours, produced a fine collection of 21 species  of warblers 
with 3 male Golden-winged taking the prize for unexpected beauties  but 
many runners-up for class and stealth.
 
On the way home, in Tipton County and a jag over  into Haywood County 
produced scattered Wind Birds in wet areas, best being  2 small flocks of 
Golden-Plovers just west of Rialto in Tipton and for the  3rd year, in the same 
field, 2 Uplands off of Highway 222 in  Haywood.
 
At home, the wind had weakened and the trees were full of  Yellow-rumps 
plus a single, chirping Rose-breasted Grosbeak and a singing  Philadelphia 
Vireo. Now back to Wind Birds..................   
Good  Birding!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington  Road
Bartlett, TN  38135
http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/
What is  this feathered thing that  lifts my heart to the  heavens.



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