Gil Derouen, Kathy Noblet, Charles Moore, and I birded the Austin Springs area and Sullivan Cty. water areas this morning. Summary:
Austin Springs (Humphries' Farm and Hyder Hill Rd. in the rain) Great Blue Heron 4 Green Heron 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Killdeer 6 Kingfisher 2 R. T. Hummingbird 1 E. Phoebe 1 E. Kingbird 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5 along Hwy 19E (about 9:30) Red-tailed Hawk 1 also along Hwy 19E (about 2:30, on the way home) Red-tailed Hawk 2 Paddle Creek Great Blue Heron 1 Green Heron 3 Killdeer 2 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Weir Dam Wild Turkey 9, 3 adult and 6 young R. T. Hummingbird 1 S. Holston Lake Dam Overlook Great Blue Heron 1 Rooty Branch Pond, Rooty Branch and Pemberton Rds. Wood Duck 6 R. T. Hummingbird 1 Kingfisher 1 Pileated Woodpecker 2 E. Kingbird 3 LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE 1 Hwy 44 Kestrel 1 R. T. Hummingbird 2 Musick's Campground Osprey 1 Green Heron 2 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Forster's Tern 1 Common Tern 2 Observation Knob Park Rd. D. C. Cormorant 1 Middlebrook Lake Great Blue Heron 2 Green Heron 2 Kingfisher 2Among the various spots, we had a total of 8 Great Blue Herons and 8 Green Herons.
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