FreeLists / tn-bird / [tn-bird] Green Heron, Black-throated Green Warbler (Greene Co., TN)

[Don Miller <raincrow@xxxxxxx>]

Spring firsts today in Greene County:

Green Heron (observed by Jim Holt and Don Miller in lower end of Paint
Creek Recreation Area, just north of French Broad River);

Black-throated Green Warbler (3 observed by Holt and Miller in lower end
of PCRA; 1 observed by Holt in Tweed Springs area in southern portion of
county).

Paint Creek Recreation Area, known locally as an ideal nesting site for
Louisiana Waterthrush, was utterly devastated by the flooding in Greene
County last August.  Jim and I saw no suitable waterthrush habitat today
and found no waterthrushes.  We had limited time at the site and
couldn't check the middle portion of the area, but it appears likely no
habitat survived.

I've seen lots of flood damage before, but PCRA defies description.
"Carpet bombing" is the term that comes to mind when I try to indicate
what it's like now.  The creek is much wider and shallower, there is
little streamside vegetation, and in many places bedrock several feet
below the old creekbed is exposed.

Don Miller,
Greeneville, TN

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