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["Shane" <tshane@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Birders: ( BirdWatching @ Mossy Creek Wildlife Viewing Area & Cherokee  Dam )


Today on July 16, 2006 Shane and Dennis Adams went birdwatching @ Mossy Creek 
Wildlife Viewing Area in Jefferson City & Cherokee Dam between Jefferson & 
Grainger Counties: First at Mossy Creek Wildlife Viewing Area Blinds 1 & 2 we 
saw 2 Belted Kingfishers walking towards viewing blind 1 about 12+ Chimney 
Swifts flying over both viewing blinds 1 & 2, Red-Winged Blackbird in the 
cattails in front of viewing blind 1, Great Blue Heron in the weeds in front of 
viewing blind 2 and also at Cherokee Dam about 5, Green Heron also in front of 
the Viewing Blind 2 / Also at down the end of the road west of Mossy Creek 
Wildlife Viewing Area in the ( Refuge ) Different types of Swallows, Black 
Crowned Night Heron ( Flying ), about 20 + Eastern Kingbirds flying over the 
Cherokee Lake and drinking water, also 2 Eastern Kingbirds at Mossy Creek 
Wildlife Viewing Area in front of the viewing blind 2 sitting on water 
sprinklers in the wetlands, Great Blue Heron, Heard  but not seen 2 
Yellow-billed Cuckoos, Black Vulture flying over the farmland next to Mossy 
Creek Viewing Area parking lot sorry I did not take any pictures of the birds 
today.


Shane Adams
East of Hamblen County
Morristown, TN. 37813