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["Rick Phillips" <sunfish0501@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Walked upstream from the American Way access to the greenbelt trail along Reedy 
Creek in Kingsport this morning mainly to try and relocate the pair of 
Red-shouldered Hawks that had been found nesting here in past years.  I did not 
find any evidence of their presence, but it sure was a nice walk.  One of the 
first birds I had on the trail was a Hooded Warbler, my first of this spring.  
One pair of Yellow-crowned Night Herons were sitting on a nest just up the 
trail from the entrance.  This was the only nest or herons I saw walking from 
where I started up to the Exchange Place.  There was a magnificent display of 
blooming spring wildflowers on a steep hillside above the trail.  Beautiful 
double-fist sized clumps of hepatica blooms were common...some white, others 
with a hint of purple or pink. Large carpets of Spring Beauty and Troutlily 
were also in bloom along with Trillium, Phlox, Dutchman's Breeches, Violets, 
Dwarf Larkspur and others I could not identify on the spot.  Well worth the 
short walk.  Here is a partial list of birds:

Hooded Warbler
Tree Swallow
Eastern Bluebird
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Yellow-rumped Warbler
American Goldfinch
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
American Kestrel
Red-winged Blackbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Wood Duck
Eastern Kingbird (first of season)
Red-tailed Hawk

Rick 

Rick Phillips
Kingsport, Tennessee


Rick Phillips
Kingsport, Tennessee