[TN-Bird] Uppie searches on Tuesday

From: "fekel" <fekel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:29:37 -0500

Bells Bend, Davidson Co.
Hickerson Rd. Sod Farm, Coffee Co.

Tuesday, 2012 Aug. 21

Tuesday morning I birded the sod farms along Old Hickory Blvd
at Bells Bend in Davidson Co., looking for Upland Sandpipers.
Best I could do was a SOLITARY SANDPIPER in a wet field across
the road and an immature LITTLE BLUE HERON on Cleeses Ferry Rd.

In the afternoon I drove down to the Manchester area and using
Ruth Luckado's excellent directions, I checked out the Hickerson
Rd. sod farm.  I quickly found 3 UPLAND SANDPIPERs feeding in the
sod on the left side of the road after driving past the right angle
bend by perhaps 0.1 mile.  The birds hid briefly in a low spot
that contained some Johnson grass before reappearing just as
the McWhirters and Don Davidson drove up.  When I left about
3:10pm, 2 of the birds could also be seen from the road perhaps
0.1 miles before you arrived at the right angle bend. Although
the views were distant, it was great to see the Uppies in the
open, similar to my sightings of this species on sod farms not far
from where I grew up in NJ.

Many thanks to the previous posts about the birds and Ruth's
spot on directions.

Frank Fekel
Bellevue, TN
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
            2012 FALL MEETING AND SYMPOSIUM AT NASHVILLE
                           October 12-14
The Nashville Chapter of the TOS will host TOS members and all other interested 
birders to the Fall Meeting and Symposium on October 12-14, 2012. The host 
hotel is the Baymont Inn, 111 Penn Warren Drive, Brentwood, TN 37027. call 
1-615-376-4666 to make a reservation.  For more details:
          http://www.tnbirds.org/downloads/warbleraug12.pdf

=================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER=====================

The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with
first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation.
You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds
you report were seen.  The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should
appear in the first paragraph.
_____________________________________________________________
     To post to this mailing list, simply send email to:
                   tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

_____________________________________________________________To unsubscribe, send email to:tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxwith 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field.

______________________________________________________________

TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological SocietyNeither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s)

       endorse the views or opinions expressed
       by the members of this discussion group.

        Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN
                wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
               ------------------------------
               Assistant Moderator Andy Jones
                        Cleveland, OH
               -------------------------------
              Assistant Moderator Dave Worley
                         Rosedale, VA
              --------------------------------
              Assistant Moderator Chris O'Bryan
                       Clemson, SC
__________________________________________________________

Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society

             web site at http://www.tnbirds.org
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

                         ARCHIVES
TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/

                      MAP RESOURCES
Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif
Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com

_____________________________________________________________

[TN-Bird] Uppie searches on Tuesday

Other related posts: