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

LEAST BITTERN:  Three 2-day old chicks and one egg in the latest of the five 
active nests; adult on the nest,- the first time I have seen an adult at this 
nest.  
An adult making a chip-chip-chip sound, very similar to the note of a Downy 
Woodpecker.  Three chips in one second, then three seconds of silence, repeated 
for at least one hour.  It might have been trying to locate its young; it was 
about 50 ft from the nest that 3 (4?) young were leaving August 5.

Only two other adults seen in 2 hours at the marsh, the fewest in a long time.

VIRGINIA RAIL:  One alarm call as I approached it in the cattails 

PIED-BILLED GREBE:  2

GREAT EGRET:  2



David Patterson
Standifer Gap Marsh, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, TN
August 8, 2004

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