FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Glossy Ibis, Standifer Gap Marsh

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

Standifer Gap Marsh, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, TN
May 2, 2006
Glossy Ibis: 6 flying over and around marsh for 10 minutes or more, 100 feet 
high, less than 300 feet away, obvious Ibis shape, extended legs and neck, long 
curved bill, rich glossy black, brown head and neck harder to see, no white.

Least Bittern: 2 active nests, one with incubating male
Wood Duck 2
American Coot 4
Virginia Rail: 6+, acting as if nest or young near oil line marker on gravel 
road
Sora 4+
Solitary Sandpiper
Marsh Wren  1

Yellow-breasted Chat  1
Palm Warbler  3
Louisiana Waterthrush  1

Orchard Oriole:  2 nests each with pair at nest, much singing, along gravel road
another 2 along east side acting as if near nest

David Aborn
David and Gloria Patterson
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