[Bristol-Birds] South Holston Lake area

  • From: "Richard Knight" <rknight8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "tn-bird" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:48:50 -0400

21 Mar 2010
South Holston Lake area, Sullivan Co., TN


While leading a group of birders from High Country Audubon (Boone, NC):

Paddle Creek pond:
Gadwall - 8
Am. Wigeon - 7
Ring-nk. Duck - 1
Wilson's Snipe - 5

Middlebrook Lake:
Blue-wg. Teal - 1
Pied-billed Grebe - 1
Am. Coot - 20
N. Rough-wg. Swallow - 1
Barn Swallow - 1  - this species is the harbinger of spring in NE Tenn.

South Holston L.  (Musick's & dam):
Ring-nk. Duck - 1
Lsr. Scaup - 18
Bufflehead - 2
Pied-billed Grebe - 2
Horned Grebe - 1, breeding plumage
Ring-billed Gull - 125+
Herring Gull - 1
Pine Warbler - 2

S. Holston River weir:
Bufflehead - 8

Rick Knight
Johnson City, TN

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