FreeLists / tn-bird / [tn-bird] Roseate Spoonbill/Virginia Rail at Kinser

[Kat92047@xxxxxxx]

On Thursday, Oct. 10, Reece Jamerson (Johnson City), H.P. Langridge 
(Elizabethton) and Bryan Stevens (Hampton) went to Kinser Park in Greene County 
to try for the Roseate Spoonbill.

We arrived at 6:45 with a heavy rain and immediately found six Great White 
Egrets at a roost in a tree. No spoonbill.

At a marshy depression next to the golf course Bryan Stevens found a Virginia 
Rail concealed in the limbs of  a shrub about six feet tall. (How typical is a 
rail in a shrub or tree?) Anyway, the rail flew from the shrub down into the 
weedy area of the shoreline, ran a few steps and then flushed and flew into 
thicker cover and wasn't seen again.

Also, in this same area, one Northern Waterthursh.

Langridge went to the extreme right and, with the light fading, located the 
Roseate Spoonbill feeding in shallow water among 80plus Canada Geese. Jamerson 
and Stevens caught up with him and also saw the bird.

We left the bird, still feeding, as the light failed and the drizzle of rain 
continued, at about 7:20 p.m.

Bryan Stevens,
Hampton, TN
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