Lee Bucks is on fire! (10Apr2014)

Greg and I met early today to see what warblers or migrants we could scare up.  I was not prepared for the awesome birding we had.  We started at Lee Bucks and at the first real creek were greeted by a Vireo symphony.  We had at least 5-6 Yellow-throated Vireo but Greg thinks even more and his ears are pretty much super human.  We had at least one Red-eyed vireo and Greg swears he heard a Philadelphia.

Yellow-throated Vireo - Song is a little more rich and musical than the Red-eye.

Yellow-throated Vireo - here you can see the wing bars and yellow spectacles.  Looks kind of like a Pine Warbler but bigger vireo like bill.

A little further down Lee Bucks, Greg heard a Prairie Warbler but we could not scare him up. However Greg heard a Summer Tanager and bingo, here it was.

Even I could hear and ID by song this Eastern Towhee.  Drink your Teeaaaaa!

Then even a little further down Lee Bucks, Greg said "this is where the Worm-eating are" then promptly this one came to say hi.

Worm-eating Warbler.

He was singing his head off.

Greg pointed out these birds had a rapid fire song typical of Tennessee birds and he was right on.  Apparently different populations sing at a different cadence.

Here you can see the crown stripe.

Next stop Greg said "this is where the Oven Birds hang out" and bingo there he was.
This Ovenbird was in poor light and would not sit still so the picture is not great, but you get the idea.

Next stop was the Swainson's Warbler spot, and this is where I finally found a bird Greg did not hear first.

Black-and-White  Warbler.

Then there he/she was!

Swainson's Warbler!

Pretty big for a warbler and man can he croon.

I told Greg he could market his ears.  He really called almost every bird before we saw them.

Great times.