FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] W. Sandpiper, Brewer's Blackbirds @ Austin Springs

[AHoodedWarbler@xxxxxxx]

On Tuesday, March 16, about noon, Tess Cumbie, Buladean, N.C.; Gilbert 
Derouen and Reece Jamerson, both of Johnson City; H.P. Langridge, Elizabethton; 
and 
Bryan Stevens, Hampton, birded at Austin Springs on Boone Lake near Johnson 
City in Washington County.
Highlights included two Brewer's Blackbirds in a flooded area of puddles in 
the pasture, a Western Sandpiper found on the wide mud flats and an American 
Pipit, also on the mudflats. Also present were many Tree Swallows, Wilson's 
Snipe, Killdeer and a Red-tailed Hawk.

The W. Sandpiper was observed from 50-35 feet away, through Langridge's 
Questar Scope, in good light, at 40 and 80 power. 

Later, at Musick's Campground, S. Holston Lake, Sullivan Co., we had 2 
Red-necked Grebes, 2 Pied-billed Grebes, 1 Horned Grebe, 1 Common Loon, 1 Ruddy 
Duck, 3 Red-breasted Mergansers and lots of Ring-billed Gulls.

At the Weir below S. Holston Dam, had only Buffleheads and 2 Mallards.

Bryan Stevens,
Hampton, TN


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