FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Eagle Bend Hatchery - Yellowlegs, etc.

["Charles P. Nicholson" <cpnichol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

14 September, 2007
Eagle Bend Fish Hatchery, Anderson County, TN

1700-1740.  

72 F, calm, light rain at start, then rain stopping and a few patches of
blue sky visible.

 

Except for a few Killdeer, all the shorebirds were in the large uppermost
pond.  This pond is presently drained.  Much of the plastic liner is covered
with a mat of mostly brown aquatic vegetation.  The shorebirds were
clustered around pools of water on the mat of vegetation.  This was the
largest count of shorebirds that I have had at the hatchery in some time.  I
was a little surprised to not have any more herons or egrets.

 

Canada Goose

Mallard

Blue-winged Teal - 23

Pied-billed Grebe - 3

Great Blue Heron - 1

Red-shouldered Hawk - 3

Killdeer - 36

Lesser Yellowlegs - 72

Solitary Sandpiper - 4

Semipalmated Sandpiper - 2

Western Sandpiper - 1

Least Sandpiper - 20

Unid. Peep - 10 (I didn't have my scope with me)

Pectoral Sandpiper - 23

Stilt Sandpiper - 6

Short-billed Dowitcher - 1

Rock Pigeon

Mourning Dove

Chimney Swift - 30

Belted Kingfisher - 1

American Crow - 5

Tree Swallow - 11

Barn Swallow - 25

Song Sparrow - 4

Eastern Meadowlark - 8

 

Chuck Nicholson

Norris, TN

 

 

 

 



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