Josh/TNbirders
That is quite amazing!
I’m going to go out tonight with a couple of folks and it would be great to
have others so we can “stake out” the Metro Center area and Buena Vista
Heights. Let me know if you’d like to join in.
Melinda Welton
615-210-8095
Nashville, TN
On Aug 11, 2017, at 10:43 AM, Joshua Stevenson <ifihadastick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Melinda/TNbird folks,
Now would be a good time for me to mention what I saw earlier this week while
at the Titans Practise field Monday night, August 7, between about 6 to 8pm.
Purple Martin's started to swarm around the Titans field and around the whole
Metro Center area, increasing in density until an enormous number of them
actually rested on the cabling structures that form a grid pattern on the big
"bubble building" that the Titans Practise in. Attached you will see a photo
taken from my cellphone. The black does after all Purple Martins. Admittedly
I'm not a pro at estimating large numbers but my safe bet for total count
that I observed over the hours was 20,000. By 8:30, the entire flock moved on
and I'm not 100% sure but I believe went in the northerly direction. They did
not roost on the building, only rested for a while.
Joshua Stevenson
Nashville, TN
sent from mobile
From: Melinda Welton
Sent: Friday, August 11, 10:31 AM
Subject: [TN-Bird] Re: The Nashville Purple Martin roost is no longer active
To: Joe Siegrist
Cc: tn-bird
Joe, There has been a huge starling roost at Metro Center for several years.
I’ll get up there and see what’s going on this year. Melinda Welton
Nashville, TN > On Aug 11, 2017, at 8:39 AM, Joe Siegrist wrote: > > Melinda,
northwest of its old position. It appears to be in the vicinity ofWith our radar tools we are still seeing a radar signature for a roost
Metrocenter/North Rhodes Park and Buena Vista Heights
https://www.google.com/maps/place/36%C2%B011'16.8%22N+86%C2%B048'33.1%22W/@36.1850124,-86.8146672,4187m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d36.188!4d-86.8092
> > While the radar data can't get an exact fix on the ground, you should be
able to see birds coming in if you drive around that area at sunset. I hope
you can get some people out there to hunt it down! It's somewhere in that
bend of the Cumberland River. > > Good luck with the treasure hunt, > > Joe
Siegrist, President > Purple Martin Conservation Association > > > >
-----Original Message----- > From: Melinda Welton
[mailto:weltonmj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] ;> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 6:33 PM >
To: tn-bird > Cc: Joe Siegrist > Subject: The Nashville Purple Martin roost
is no longer active > > The Nashville roost isn’t forming this year. It was
first detected on NEXRAD radar in 2004 by the Purple Martin Conservation
Society, and Scott Somershoe found the exact location in 2010. > > On July
25th I reported that a road was being constructed through the roost. On Aug
1st I went out to the area and saw one individual Purple Martin near the
river. On the 8th from the walking bridge several of us saw around 4,000
birds in the sky and at sunset they headed in the direction of the roost.
Last night, the 9th, we went to the roost saw not a single individual in the
sky!! On August 10th, 2016 David Hanni took timed photographs and estimated
there to be 60,000 birds entering that roost. > > This morning David Hanni
and I looked at NEXRAD to see where the birds might have gone. We saw nothing
in Middle TN, but there looks to be an ENORMOUS dispersing roost on the
Mississippi near Tiptonville. Mark Greene said he’d go out in the next couple
of days and see what the birds are. Interestingly, about 10 years ago there
was a roost on a peninsula on the Mississippi with ~500,000 Purple Martins! >
This is the radar loop from dawn this morning. >http://weather.rap.ucar.edu/radar/displayRad.php?icao=KHPX∏=bref1&bkgr=gray&endDate=20170810&endTime=12&duration=2.
> > We’re going to keep an eye on the Nashville downtown for the next couple
of weeks, but I’m not optimistic. > > Melinda Welton > Nashville > ======OTES
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