[tn-bird] Bear Creek Rd. Marsh- Oak Ridge & Rankin WMA correction

From:  Robert Loveday

I made a 15 minute stop @ the Bear Creek Rd. marsh below the Hwy
58 bridge before punching the clock this morning:

Red-headed woodpeckers were seen on both sides of the access
gravel road that splits the marsh.

A yellow-throated warbler & a brown headed nuthatch were seen
within a foot of each other working a pine tree.

An osprey was perched nearby on a dead pine surveying the algae
covered water, as were a belted kingfisher & 2 eastern
kingbirds.

Phoebes were everywhere (sadly so were starlings).

Also seen/ heard: Am goldfinch, E. bluebirds, White-eyed vireos,
Common yellowthroat, Blue-gray gnatcatchers, Red tail hawk,
Pileated/ Red bellied/ Downy woodpeckers.

Absent were the easily seen 2 great egrets & 2 black-crowned
night herons that spent most of the summer at the marsh (one
visit this summer, I saw a great egret, great blue heron, green
heron, & a deer all in one binoc view? a real Kodak moment). 

FYI,  a security guard met me at the Bear Creek marsh gate a few
weeks ago. No problem really,  we had a nice conversation.  A
bomb threat on the Oak Ridge Reservation caused them to more
closely watch any parked cars in the area.

Correction to my post Monday re: Rankin WMA-  
I stated that some smaller Least Terns were likely in with 3
Black Terns seen.  Well, revisiting the bird books it seems the
Black Tern is 10? lg.when I thought it was 14?. So the assumed
9.75? lg. ?smaller? Least Terns were more likely Black Terns.  I
guess I have to eat ?crow? on that one (not the first time,
certainly not the last).

To everything tern, tern, tern,
There is a season tern, tern, tern? 
(has anyone thought of that one yet Dean or David ?)




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