[TN-Bird] Bald Eagle

While birding with our neice Hillary at Bedford Lake in Bedford Co (a TWRA 
managed Lake) we had an immature bald eagle...a first for that area....we have 
had them on the river but not at the lake itself. Also seen were:
8 species of ducks...
Green winged Teal
Bufflehead
Ring-necked Duck
Wood Duck
Canvasback
Black Duck
Mallard
Ruddy Duck

We assume the Hooded Mergansers were there but never saw them...
Yellow-rumped Warlers
Juncos
Female Yellow-shafted Flicker
Downy Woodpecker
Turkey Vulture
Wild Turkeys
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Bluebird
Belted Kingfisher
Killdeer
Eastern Towhee (heard only)

Weather was cool and sunny.

it is such a delight to go out with "new birders" for she represents how I most 
enjoy birding- excitement and just soak in every good look at the birds. 
Our neice lives in Austin Texas and has taken up birding (making her aunt & 
uncle so proud!). She took us to to a neat spot called Hornsby Bend- settling 
ponds for sewage and compost spot for the city- while we visited in her in 
March. We saw the Least Grebe while there ( a lifer for us)...also had a 
Caracara and a beautiful look at the Lark Sparrow. Lots of ducks and a neat 
Chimney Swift tower project was there on display.

On this Dec Wednesday, Hillary and I enjoyed watching the Phoebe in the 
sunlight and had the flicker drinking from the lake while perched on drift wood 
along the shore.

We went to Woods Reservoir also...had the Horned Grebes, Loons, Coots, Hooded 
Mergansers, Savannah Sparrow, Red-tailed Hawk, Blue Jay,  E 
Bluebird....pied-billed Grebe, bufflehead, Canada geese...It is located in 
Franklin/Coffee Counties, I believe.

She had her first Brown Creeper at our house (it's been a regular here since 
early October) in Normandy (Bedford Co)

Melissa Turrentine
Normandy TN
Bedford Co
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