FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Standifer Gap Marsh, Breeding Birds

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

Standifer Gap Marsh, Chattanooga, Hamilton Co., TN
some breeding birds at the marsh:

Least Bittern,  2 young last year

Canada Goose, 6 or so sitting on piles of cattail, 
  2 adults and 3 young (10" long?) last week.

Mallard,  1 nest with 12 eggs in March, 
  young apparently fledged

Blue-winged Teal, nest with 12 eggs May 1, 2004,
  apparently 2 pairs

Virginia Rail.
  6 sightings of young last week, at least 4 individuals,
  pairs of parents apparently with young in at least 5 
  locations

Sora, probably breeding

Red-winged Blackbird 
  Last year I found 5 or so in May,
  on saplings, about 4-5 ft high, above water
  This year I have found 5 so far that were in
  rushes or cattails, less than a foot above the water,
  with 2 - 4 eggs, and about 4 under construction in
  saplings.
  It seems, based on this limited observation, that 
  they nest in late March and April in cattails or
  rushes, no leaves on saplings yet, and then in late
  April and May begin nesting in saplings, as the 
  leaves start to appear.


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