FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] GBBC highlights around Kingston (Roane Co.) TN

["Raincrow" <raincrow@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I entered 2 GBBC counts for Saturday and 3 for today, all in the Kingston zip 
code. 
I saw many of the usual suspects this weekend (and had some unexpected misses 
-- no crows, for example!), but the best were Fox sparrows in my yard (7 miles 
south of the Kingston exit [I-40/352] at about mile marker 564 and 0.5 miles 
away and ~150 ft above the TN river/Watts Bar Res.) -- 1 Saturday and 2 today 
-- and a beautiful adult bald eagle soaring over the lake at about mile 564.3, 
viewed from Ross Estates Rd. Only the 2nd eagle I've seen near my house since I 
moved here in '99!! Woo hoo!! Makes me wonder if the very large hawk I couldn't 
ID (because I'd left my binoculars at home - AGGG!!) near Center Hill Ferry 
boatlaunch on the Clinch just upstream from Kingston was really an eagle... 

Hope all of you had some excellent birds/numbers/species diversity to report.

Liz Singley
Kingston (Roane Co.), TN




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