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Reelfoot Lake area, Mar. 22 & 23, mostly Lake Co. TN
 
 Five members of the Nashville Audubon group joined Reelfoot Lake  State Park 
staff and others for a canoe float thru the swamp at  Reelfoot Lake on 
Saturday. High water level helped us float  thru magnificent old cypress trees, 
but 
high winds keep us off open  water. The old eagle hacking tower site was the 
destination.
 
Weekend highlights include 3 Bald Eagle nests with a bird sitting on each  
nest. In the Black Bayou area a photographer reported 9 Bald Eagles on  the 
ground, probably feeding on carrion left over from duck season. The  
composition 
of duck species has changed from winter to early spring  mix, with hundreds of 
N. Shovelers, Green-winged and Blue-winged Teal in  the flooded fields.
 
In Upper Blue Basin, out from Nancy Moore's place,  we had 6  Red-breasted 
Mergansers; long lines of DC Cormorants in the mornings,  aprox. 600 total each 
day; Osprey, with several nests in view from there;  Bonaparte's Gulls; 
swallows streaming up the lake, mostly Tree and N.  Rough-winged Swallows with 
some 
Barn Swallows and Purple  Martins. 
 
A total of 4 Loggerhead Shrikes were seen in the Black Bayou/ Phillippy  
area. And also there were Horned Larks, Am. Pipits and Greater Yellowlegs.  
Northern Harriers were still around with several males and females seen. 
 
All the woodpeckers were seen with Red-headed seen only on our canoe float.  
On Walnut Log Road we had Hermit Thrush, Fish Crow, both kinglets,  
Red-shouldered Hawks, a cooperative Barred Owl who posed for photos, and a  
mink crossed 
the road. A couple of Great Egret were seen with a fly-over flock  of  6 near 
Dyersburg.
 
Richard Connors
Nashville
 
list follows:
 
Wood Duck
Gadwall 1
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Northern  Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Bufflehead 2
Hooded  Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser 6
Wild Turkey
Great Egret
Black  Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern  Harrier
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American  Kestrel
American Coot
Greater Yellowlegs 10
Yellowlegs  sp.   40+
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Mourning  Dove
Barred Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied  Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy  Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern  Phoebe
Loggerhead Shrike 4
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow  2
Horned Lark
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged  Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted  Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned  Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Northern  Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
American  Pipit
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Field Sparrow
Savannah  Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed  Junco
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern  Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
American  Goldfinch
House Sparrow





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