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

Standifer Gap Marsh, Chattanooga, Hamilton Co., TN
A pril 17, 2005
American Bittern, 0
Least Bittern, 3-4, all looked like males, no singing
Green Heron, 1
Blue-winged Teal, 14
Purple Gallinule, 0
King Rail, 0
Virginia Rail, 5-6, possible 1 nest under construction
Sora, 6-8

Killdeer, 2nd batch of young (4), 2" high
  The adult with the 4 young gave a continuous alarm
  which I haven't heard before, sounded something
  like a bell on an alarm clock, 6-7 dings per second.
  Another adult 500 ft away made a similar alarm as
  I approached.

Orchard Oriole, 2 orange-black males singing and
  apparently negotiating territorial boundaries,
  another orange-black male singing along gravel road.

Red-winged Blackbird, est 50+, found my first 6 nests
  of the season, 1 with 2 eggs, 2 completed, 3 under
  construction.  Saw a female carrying wet nesting
  material, and 2 nests had wet material included.
  Five brilliant males pursued one apparently very
  attractive female all over the south end of the marsh.

Mallard/Coot:  April 11 I flushed an American Coot from
  a muskrat mound,  checked the mound for a nest and
  found a female Mallard on 10 eggs.  Today I saw a Coot
  standing on the same mound, right next to the sitting
  female Mallard.  As I approached, the Coot flew away
  in what appeared to be an attempt to distract me.  Kevin
  Calhoon chased the Coot to be certain it wasn't the Purple
  Gallinule he found in that area April 10.  He flushed it several 
  times, and each time it flew perhaps 50 ft, staying in the
  cattails.  We decided the Coot is somehow bonded to the
  female mallard and/or her nest.
  

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