FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Tellico Dam, Saturday, June 4

["Carole Gobert" <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Saturday, June 5, I returned to Tellico Dam in Loudon County in an attempt 
to re-locate the blackbird that I saw last Sunday that I reported as a 
female Brewer?s.  At the time I didn?t realize how rare such a sighting 
would be and though at the time I posted about it I thought the bird looked 
just like the photo of the Brewer?s in my Stokes guide, I cannot now say for 
certain that it was a Brewer?s.  It probably wasn?t.  In any case, I was not 
surprisingly unable to find the bird again.  The trip was not in vain, 
however, as I found lots of good birds on a very pleasant morning.

I had barely started walking the paved trail from the parking lot toward the 
dam when I observed four kestrels in an open area with several power poles 
to the right of the trail.  When first seen, two were on the wires and two 
on the cross bar of the telephone pole a couple hundred feet distant  I 
assume it was a family group as they all clustered together at times  The 
only two that I got good enough close-up looks at to determine the sex were 
both females.  At one point a lone kestrel took out after a crow and chased 
it away.

There were many, many cliff swallows and a somewhat lesser number of tree 
swallows.  Field sparrows were playing ping pong just about everywhere and I 
both heard and saw eastern meadowlarks (didn?t remember hearing any last 
weekend).

Had fly-bys by an osprey and a belted kingfisher, both heading for the open 
water.

Carole Gobert
Knox County, Tennessee


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