FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Cades Cove Woodcock

[David Trently <dtrently@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday I joined Charlie Muise for a naturalist visit to Cades Cove in the 
Great Smoky Mountains National Park of east Tennessee (Blount County). He was 
leading a group with the Smoky Mountain Institute at Tremont, looking for 
wetland beetles, while I was concentrating on dragonflies and butterflies, but 
we of course kept our ears open for birds as well.
Didn't make it to the sewage lagoons so we missed the birds that Jean 
Alexander reported on this list.

Best birds were 3 WILD TURKEY and 2 or 3 AMERICAN WOODCOCK. I found the 
woodcock while walking in the wooded area around Abrams Creek, across from the 
entrance road to the Abrams Falls trailhead parking area (area called the "Old 
Field"). There's an unmown field to one side, Abrams Creek on the other, with 
a sometimes wet, wooded area in bewteen. I've heard woodcock displaying in 
this area at other times of the year.
Also heard a BROWN CREEPER in the Gum Swamp.

Best non-bird were the Dragonhunters (dragonflies)...very large clubtail 
dragons that fly with their 'tails' curved down and forward, in a "J" shape.
Also saw 2 black bear near Sparks Lane.

David Trently,
Knoxville, TN
http://web.utk.edu/~dtrently/AvianPursuits.html

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