FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Chattanooga Chapter Field Trip, Standifer Gap Marsh

["David and Gloria Patterson" <dgpatterson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Standifer Gap Marsh, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, TN    7/8/07
Nine Chattanooga area birders waded and hiked Standifer Gap Marsh.
We saw and/or heard 53 species, listed at the end of this posting, including:

Virginia Rail    1
Great Horned Owl     1
Willow Flycatcher    2
Marsh Wren    2
Black-and-white Warbler    1

Willow Flycatchers nested at the marsh in 2004 about 50 feet south and 20 feet 
west of the culvert in the gravel road, and again 2005 about 150 feet south and 
200 feet west, near the edge of the water, both times about head height.  The 
two today were a few feet south from the green dock, around the south end of 
the water, north along the water's edge to the last isolated willow and ash 
trees.

Observers:  Clyde Blum, Carol Fergarido, Jack and Vickie Leather, David and 
Gloria Patterson, Bill and Betty Wampler, Susan Schott

Canada Goose     20
Wood Duck     1
Mallard     12
Least Bittern     1
Great Blue Heron     2
Green Heron     3
Red-shouldered Hawk     1
Red-tailed Hawk     1
Virginia Rail     1
Mourning Dove     20
Great Horned Owl     1
Chimney Swift     10
Belted Kingfisher     2
Red-bellied Woodpecker     2
Downy Woodpecker     2
Northern Flicker     1
Willow Flycatcher     2
Eastern Phoebe     1
Eastern Kingbird     5
White-eyed Vireo     1
Blue Jay     4
American Crow     6
Purple Martin     20
Tree Swallow     1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow     15
Barn Swallow     12
Carolina Chickadee     2
Tufted Titmouse     1
White-breasted Nuthatch     1
Brown-headed Nuthatch     4
Carolina Wren     5
House Wren     2
Marsh Wren     2
Eastern Bluebird     2
Wood Thrush     2
Northern Mockingbird     8
Brown Thrasher     1
European Starling     150
Pine Warbler     1
Black-and-white Warbler     1
Common Yellowthroat     7
Yellow-breasted Chat     2
Eastern Towhee     6
Field Sparrow     2
Song Sparrow     2
Northern Cardinal     6
Indigo Bunting     1
Red-winged Blackbird     70
Eastern Meadowlark     1
Common Grackle     5
Orchard Oriole     4
House Finch     2
American Goldfinch     2


David Patterson

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