FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Cove Lake Birds - 1/27/08

["Charles P. Nicholson" <cpnichol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cove Lake State Park, Campbell County
 

I birded Cove Lake for about 2 hours this morning.  The lake is unusually
low - about 6 feet below the normal pool level.  Normally this lake, which
is an arm of Norris Lake with its own retention dam, does not have a
noticeable winter drawdown.  There were large areas of flats, partially
ice-covered, and most of the open water areas were frozen over.  Most of the
waterfowl were in the streams flowing across the mudflats and near the
campground.

 

Canada Goose - 180, including at least 25 with aluminum leg bands and one
with orange neck color #A7R4

Gadwall - 146

Am Black Duck - 6

Mallard - 55

Green-winged Teal - 10

Hooded Merganser - 68

Great Blue Heron - 6

Killdeer - 70 (record high count for me there)

Ring-billed Gull - 60

Mourning Dove - 3

Rock Pigeon - 30

Belted Kingfisher - 1

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Downy Woodpecker

Hairy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Pileated Woodpecker

Blue Jay

Am Crow

Carolina Chickadee

Tufted Titmouse

Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2

White-breasted Nuthatch

Carolina Wren

Winter Wren

Eastern Bluebird

Hermit Thrush

Am Robin

N Mockingbird

European Starling

Cedar Waxwing

Yellow-rumped Warbler - 32

Song Sparrow

Swamp Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

N Cardinal

Am Goldfinch

 

Chuck Nicholson

Norris, TN

 

 



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