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[Arthur_McDade@xxxxxxx (Arthur McDade)]

I had been reading about the brown-headed nuthatches at Kingston Steam Plant for
several days, and had intended to go see these birds--which would be "lifers"
for me--but for one reason or another, I had not. When I read that James Brooks
had seen them still there recently, I decided to go. 

So last afternoon and early evening (Wed., 6/12/02), I spent three hours at KSP,
finding not only the nuthatches exactly where Brooks mentioned they were (in the
stand of a dozen or so pines along the edge of the bay by the railroad track
just across from I-40 at the plant). I saw two brown-headed nuthatches working
the pine cones and the decayed wood in the pines in the perfect low afternoon
sun.  Great view.

After seeing the nuthatches, I drove over to the ballfield area of the plant and
walked in to the settling ponds and the cattail marsh area. Much to my delight,
I also found a male and female orchard oriole, and a male blue grosbeak in the
trees along the marsh border. (Both the oriole and the grosbeak were TN "firsts"
for me also). Two yellow-billed cuckoos also cavorted in and out of the
deciduous trees as I walked along the gravel road near the marsh area. To cap
off my very pleasant evening, an osprey flew overhead as I left the cattail
area.

I thank Wallace Coffey for creating this TN-Bird site, and for the reporters who
keep folks like me updated on birds in and around the area. Finding the
brown-headed nuthatches (and the other species last night) through the reports
on TN-Birds was a genuine treat, and proved to me the value of this medium. 

Arthur McDade
Wartburg, Morgan County, Tennessee
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