| $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 with Warblers and More |
| Brief Overview of the Trip |
| Day 1: Arrival/April 22 into Nashville by noon or Knoxville a bit later (before 2 PM). Late afternoon birding in Knoxville area. Good chance for Brown-headed Nuthatch and Pine Warbler. Day 2: Sharps Ridge: Migrating warblers and some of the more common nesting species in the Knoxville area. This ridge is the main springtime birding site here. A pleasant walk along the paved road could yield a lot of the target songbirds the first few hours of the trip! From here, we'll then move on to some other migrant traps and a quickly growing trip list. Day 3: Cove Lake State Park and Cross Mountain for breeding songbirds. Highlights include Golden-winged, Prothonotary, Cerulean and Kentucky Warblers. There is a chance for Red-headed Woodpecker and Swainson's Warbler. Day 4: Kyker Bottoms, Wood Thrush Ridge and Chota Waterfowl Refuge: Our best chances to add some waterfowl and shorebirds to the trip list. Some chance for American Bittern, Sora, Bobolink, owls. Dusk offers a chance to see Chuck-will’s-widow, and maybe an Eastern Whip-poor-will or American Woodcock. 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 a number of 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. Then we spend some time at the Smoky Mountains National Park. This trip offers a lot for bird watchers and wildflower/nature enthusiasts and it will be pleasant spring time 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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