[Bristol-Birds] one of those days

Thu. 22 APR 2004
Clyde Austin 4-H Center, Greeneville, TN
D. Holt

Two Spotted Sandpipers, the first I've ever seen here, visited our canoeing 
"lake", a large pond actually.  They flew up from the shore as I approached on 
foot with one group of kids, dodging across the pond between canoes full of 
kids aimlessly thrashing the water.  It looked like a pinball game.  I couldn't 
find them later in the day.

I heard a Green Heron's "skyow" and looked up to see three (count 'em, 3) Green 
Herons flying high across the open agricultural fields.  I don't think I have 
ever seen more than one at a time flying that way.  They appeared to leave one 
area pond and cross to another.  Just before reaching their destination, a pair 
of small birds dived?dove? swooped  on them, sending them swerving downwards.  
Everybody disappeared behind trees just after that, so I'm not sure, but my 
impression was that the smaller birds were Eastern Kingbirds.  I thought maybe 
they mistook the herons for hawks.

Some of the students asked my boss if it was his fake bird they had found on 
the patio beside the flagpole.  A Worm-eating Warbler had apparantly collided 
with something and sat on the concrete stunned and unmoving.  The kids wouldn't 
believe it was real until it opened its eyes.  I moved it to a branch of a yard 
shrub, then took a few pictures of it before it revived and flew off.

Don Holt
Johnson City, TN
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