[Bristol-Birds] Muddy Creek heron rookery on Boone Lake has doubled in size !
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:42:45 -0400
29 March 2011
Boone Lake
South Fork Holston River Embayment
Sullivan County, TN
The expanding Great Blue Heron nesting site on Boone Lake in
Sullivan County had 17 nests this morning.
A site with three nests, found in March 2010, and located
about 300 yards west of Hicks Bend is now abandoned. It appears
extensive tree clearing for home or lot development has made
the site unsuitable. The site is near the ridge top of a narrow,
woodland strip of a narrow peninsula on a 175-acre farm lying
between the mouth of Candy Creek and the main South Fork
channel. It is located between TVA lake points 6 and 7 at river
mile 23.5.
The nesting colony of Great Blue Herons, discovered 29 May 2007
at Fickles Island on Boone Lake in Sullivan, Co., TN, continues to
expand. It has 17 nest and all are occupied with adults.
This rookery has almost doubled from the 9 nest found there
7 March 2010. The original nest site was found in 2007 on the
island below but it has had no nest since 2008.
This shifted site is located downstream of DeVault Bridge at the
mouth of Muddy Creek on the South Fork Holston River embayment
of the reservoir. It has an eastern exposure aspect.
This Muddy Creek location was the first known rookery of Great
Blues found on Boone Lake.
Let's go birding......
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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