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["Mary Erwin" <maryerwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

While dining outdoors on the deck of a restaurant on the Kingsport
riverfront this evening, my friends and I were entertained by several
birds.  A Canada goose couple supervised their 5 chicks swimming in "the
kiddie pool", a calm pool beside the swiftly flowing river.  Several
Double Crested Cormorants flew downriver toward their roost.  ( I have
seen them arrayed in sycamores on the island near the Netherland Inn
recently.)

 

A Spotted Sandpiper dropped in to check the shoreline.  A male Wilson's
Warbler appeared in the top of a sycamore near the restaurant.  Knight's
Birds of East Tennessee gives April 15 as the early arrival date for the
Wilson's, so this one was only a day late.

 

On the way home about 8pm, I took some friends to view the "owl cliffs"
on Riverport Rd.  The young Great Horned Owl was out of the nest, and
was perched on a limb to the right of the nest hole.

 

Mary Erwin

Kingsport

 

 



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