The change in the weather seems to have encouraged more migrants to stop in Tennessee this morning (5/9/2012), rather than overflying us straight to the Ohio Valley as they appear to have been doing for the last week or so. My morning rounds at our place in western Lewis County yielded 16 species of warblers including chat, up from 9 to 11 the last three days. The tally included 2 Tennessee, 2 Magnolia, 4 Black-throated Green, 2 Bay-breasted, and 3 Canada Warblers and an American Redstart.
Blackpoll Warblers have been notably scarce so far this season; I have only tallied ONE all year so far. Hopefully this just reflects good flying conditions, not a real scarcity of birds. They are among the champion warblers when it comes to incredibly long non-stop migratory flights, given good conditions. As one of our most northerly nesting warblers, though, I worry about them given the climatological strangeness that may be happening in the far north. Plus, this extreme boreal range makes monitoring their populations more difficult; the BBS barely samples them at all.
Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
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