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[Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

Tracey, Allan and I hit a few spots between Maryville and Chattanooga
the last 2 days.

Sept 4, 2004:

Route 411 in Blount County, south of Maryville:
2 Osprey
Common Green Darner (dragonfly)

Route 411 in Monroe County, towards Chota:
Adult Bald Eagle 
3 Osprey

Chota Wildlife Management Area/Tenasi Monuments
Monroe County
13 Double-crested Cormorants
many Ruby-throated Hummingbirds
1 Trails Flycatcher (Willow or Alder:  I think the former)
hundreds of Swallows.  All I could make out were Tree and Northern
Rough-winged

dragonflies:  12-spotted Skimmer, Ruby (?) Meadowhawk, Carolina
Saddlebags, Black Saddlebags (both common, the former more so),
Common Green Darner (the C-150 of the insect world, I can imagine it
landing and little army tanks driving out of the back of it's
thorax).

butterflies:  Monarchs, Eastern-tailed Blue, Cloudless Sulphur,
Red-spotted Purple

other:  
a corn snake.  Surprisingly, this one bit me when I picked it up.  In
my experience these are most mellow.
1 box turtle

Standifer Gap Marsh, Hamilton County:
one Virginia Rail, 3+ Green Herons, 6 Wood Ducks, 1 Swamp Sparrow, 1
Gray Catbird.

One Red-shouldered Hawk was escorted from the area by a Ruby-throated
Hummingbird which chased it at least 100 meters!

Dragons: Common Green Darner, E. Pondhawk, Black Saddlebags,
Halloween Penant, Slaty Skimmer, Blue Dasher (many mating),
12-Spotted Skimmer, Eastern Amberwing.

Other:  monarchs, 4.5 foot Black Rat Snake, many sun turtles, Pearly
Crescent butterfly, Green Frogs.

Brainerd Levee, Hamilton County:
No shorebirds at all!  Only waders were 1 Great Egret and 2 Great
Blue Herons.  A female Blue Grosbeak put on a good show of
flycatching.

Dragons:  Simply amazing.  Best I've seen in my short time looking at
these guys.  Many hundreds putting on a good show.  Made up entirely
for a very disappointing bird day:  Cinnamon Shadowdragon (my
first!), 100's of Eastern Amberwings, many 12-Spotted Skimmers,
Common Green Darners, The only Common Whitetails of the day, Eastern
Pondhawks, Halloween Pennant, Black Saddlebags, and at least 3
species I could not ID, including one Clubtail with just a bit of
yellow on the club.

Today, Sept 6:
Chattanooga, Hamilton County
while hanging with a friend at the river park, just east of the foot
bridge over the Tennessee River, we saw an adult Red-headed
Woodpecker.

Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge, Meigs County
Only one shorebird.  A single Killdeer.  Thanks a lot for nothing,
TVA.

Charlie




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Charlie Muise, Naturalist near
Great Smoky Mountains National Park

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer."  -Edward Abbey
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