FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Brainerd Levee, Woodcock

["David & Gloria Patterson" <dgpatterson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brainerd Levee, Chattanooga, TN
April 20, 2003

Woodcock,  flushed in foot-high grass head-high shrubs about 10:00 AM, between
Brainerd Recreational Complex and Brainerd Levee.  I looked for a nest, but no 
luck.
This looks quite a bit like habitat where friends and I have found Woodcock 
nests 
near Savannah, TN.

One Northern Shoveler remaining.  Ten or so Blue-winged Teal, inclulding a few 
pairs
in swampy woods.  Could they nest here?

Four Solitary Sandpipers.  

Thought I heard a Summer Tanager.  

Snake story:  Friday at Standifer Gap Marsh I saw a black snake in the top of a 
bush
about 6 feet high.  I thought perhaps it was waiting for a careless bird to 
land.  From the 
number and diameter of the loops I estimated its length at ten feet.  Then I 
noticed it 
had two heads and two tails.  Not much of a way to ambush birds!


David Patterson
Chattanooga, TN

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