[TN-Bird] Sunday migrants - Knox

  • From: KD Edwards <sparverius@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: TN-Bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 23:10:06 -0400

I got up at 6:30am Sunday morning and birded around the yard for about 2 hrs 
before the rest of the family got up and we left for church.  Good activity 
following the cold front passage both before and after dawn.  Highlights below, 
all from west Knox Co, Sunday 22 Sept 2013.

Chimney Swift, 2+
Ruby-throated Hummingbird, 4+
E Wood-Pewee, ~5
Red-eyed Vireo, 1
Scarlet Tanager, 2

6 Thrushes and 3 Thrashers:
Swainson's, ~100 pre-dawn flight calls, 10+ seen and/or heard in the woods 
after dawn mainly working the Blackgums
Gray-cheeked, ~10 pre-dawn, 1 seen after dawn
Wood, ~10 pre-dawn, at least 1 heard in the woods after dawn
Veery, ~10 pre-dawn, 1-2 heard in the woods after dawn
Brown Thrasher, 5
Gray Catbird, 1 heard mewing in the wild grape around dawn
Plus the regular E Bluebirds, Am Robins, and N Mickingbirds

Warblers:
20+ pre- and post-dawn flyovers
GOLDEN-WINGED, 1 cooperative male
Am Redstart, 3-5
Magnolia, 2, more probables heard as flyovers based on flight call
Blackburnian, 2
Black-throated Green, 2
Black-and-white, 1

Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN






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