[Bristol-Birds] Sandhill Crane, Canvasback, Bald Eagle, etc. (Greene Co., TN)

February 14, 2009 

Greene County: Greeneville, Mosheim, and numerous backroad sites in the western 
portion of the county 

Highlights from a few very pleasurable car-birding hours today-- 

Canvasback (10, Guinn Dr.) 
Ring-necked Duck (4, Gravel Woods Rd.) 

Great Blue Heron (13 standing on nests, viewable at intersection of Pate's Hill 
Rd. / Jackson Hollow Rd.) 

Bald Eagle (immature, Bewley's Bridge (located on Hwy. 340 about a mile from 
the Cocke Co. line)) 
Merlin (Hwy. 340 0.5 mi. east of Turner Ln.) 

Sandhill Crane (4, Murray Bridge Rd. 0.2 mi. west of Easterly Rd.; the birds 
preened, "danced" a bit with spread wings, then flew east, disappearing over 
the Joachime Bible Refuge unit of Lick Creek Bottoms Wildlife Management Area) 

Eurasian Collared-Dove (Mosheim, about 0.75 mi. from West Greene High School) 

Horned Lark (8, Green Rd.) 

American Pipit (3, Seay Way) 

Rusty Blackbird (6, Hwy. 340 0.4 mi. east of Turner Ln.; there were probably at 
least four times that many, but I could not find a convenient place to pull 
over, and the birds kept moving actively, so I gave up trying to count after 
only a few minutes) 

[Today is the first date in 2009 when I have found all five expectable winter 
Icterids: Red-winged Blackbird, Eastern Meadowlark, Rusty Blackbird, Common 
Grackle, Brown-headed Cowbird.] 

Purple Finch (3). 

Don Miller 
Greeneville, Greene Co., TN

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