| $1,190 Trip price includes lodging for seven plus days of birding and seven nights. Transport by van is included. Bird Guiding and trip planning services are included. Breakfast is included with the lodging we have booked in a few locations. This price is per person and assumes a shared room (with another roommate or spouse). Above pricing assumes willing to share room with spouse or roommate. We can help fund room mates if you so desire, and otherwise single room supplement is $380 additional. Not Included in Pricing: Prices do not include flights to Tennessee (currently about $220 to Nashville from most parts of the United States and several hundred more into Knoxville). The price of noon and evening meals are not included. You will also need to purchase breakfast a few times. We estimate about $25 to $35 for meals each day, so budget another $150 to $220 for your meals. You will pay your actual costs and are free to spend more. Tips are not included. |
| Tennessee Birding: 30+ Warblers and More!! |
| Brief Overview of the Trip |
| Day 1: Sunday, April 22 - Arrival in Knoxville before 2 PM. Afternoon/evening birding in the Knoxville area. Good chance for Brown-headed Nuthatch, Eastern Bluebird and Pine Warbler. At dusk we will listen for, and hopefully see, Chuck-will's-widow and Whip-poor-will. Day 2: Sharps Ridge: This site is locally known as one of the best places to see migrating warblers and other songbirds. A pleasant walk along the paved road could yield a lot of the target birds the first few hours of the trip! From here, we'll move on to a couple of other migrant traps before ending the day at Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge, which offers a good chance for Bald Eagle, Northern Bobwhite, Grasshopper Sparrow...and more, for a quickly growing trip list. Day 3: Cross Mountain and Cove Lake State Park for breeding songbirds. Highlights include Golden-winged, Prothonotary, Cerulean, Worm-eating and Kentucky Warblers. Some chance for Swainson's Warbler. We should find Red-headed Woodpecker and Wood Thrush. On the return to Knoxville, we'll visit the Songbird Trail below Norris Dam for more local nesting species, and maybe additional migrants. The Eagle Bend Fish Hatchery will be a good place for Palm Warbler and hopefully a few shorebirds. Day 4: Kyker Bottoms and Chota Waterfowl Refuge offer our best chances to add some waterfowl and shorebirds to the trip list. Possible, though hard to predict, are American Bittern, Sora and Bobolink. Dusk offers a chance to see Chuck-will’s-widow, and maybe an Eastern Whip-poor-will or American Woodcock. Should hear Eastern Screech-Owl, and maybe other owls. Day 5: Cherohala Skyway: This route offers excellent opportunities to see many of the higher elevation breeding species in the area. Day 6: Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge and Great Smoky Mountain National Park: Another try at some hot spots near Knoxville and including Seven Islands NWR. Then afternoon start at Great Smoky Mountain NP. Day 7: Great Smoky Mountain National Park: Full day of fantastic birding here with chance for Swainson's Warbler and Henslow's Sparrow and much more. Day 8: Departure from Knoxville or Nashville on April 29. |
| Brief Itinerary |
| Current Schedule for this Route |
| April 22 to April 29, 2012 with David Trently. To learn more about the David Trently, please click the pertaining button below. |
| Trip Description |
Birding in Tennessee
in the USA
in the USA
| Photo by Bill Schmoker |
| For more information or to register for this trip, call Charles or Alison at 888-203-7464 or Charles directly at 720-320-1974 or by email at info@PIBird.com. |
| Pricing Details |
| This trip is designed with the western US birder in mind. We’ll spend a lot of time searching for those species that rarely, if ever, reach the western states. On this trip, we should find a good number of nesting warblers and a few key migrating ones, giving good looks at up to 30 (or more) species of warblers. Other highlights of this trip include possibility of Ruffed Grouse, Chuck-will's-widow, Brown-headed Nuthatch, (newly split) Winter Wren, Wood Thrush, Scarlet Tanager, four species of vireo and a number of eastern flycatchers. Stops include some key birding hot spots, including Sharps Ridge, Cove Lake State Park, Cross Mountain, Kyker Bottoms, Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge, Chota Waterfowl Refuge and Cherohala Skyway. We will also spend some time in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This trip offers a lot for bird watchers and wildflower/nature enthusiasts and it will be pleasant spring birding in Tennessee. |
| Photo by Bill Schmoker |
| Photo by Bill Schmoker |
| Photo by Bill Schmoker |
| Photo by Bill Schmoker |
| Photo by Bill Schmoker |
| Photo by Bill Schmoker |
| Photo by Bill Schmoker |
| Photo by Bill Schmoker |
| Photo by Bill Schmoker |
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