[TN-Bird] Birds from Ghost River SNA, Fayette Co., King Rail...

While working at Ghost River State Natural Area in Fayette County on April 28, 
2009 from 11:40 AM till 3 PM I saw or heard the following birds (select list 
does not include all birds heard/seen):

 

1. Great Blue Heron- heronry seen from Bateman Road includes ten nests with 
three adult GBHerons seen standing on nests and one sitting within a nest.  One 
adult was observed taking nesting material (sticks) from one nest that appeared 
inactive to another nest.

2. King Rail?- From the same site where I watched the heronry, I heard the kek 
kek kek notes of a rail and also heard the grunting noises (maybe 3 separate 
individuals) that some rails make.  If I listened closely I could hear these 
grunting calls every few seconds (though sometimes there would be no grunting 
calls for minutes).  I imitated the kek kek kek notes and had a rail counter 
with its own kek kek kek calls.  I never saw a rail.  I'm assuming what I heard 
were king rails due to the calls made, the habitat (marsh), and the breeding 
range within TN as mapped in the Atlas of the Breeding Birds of TN.  According 
to a list of birds from Ghost River State Natural Area, no rails other than 
American Coot are listed for the area.  The marsh habitat here extends for 
maybe 60-acres or more.  For those that may go to the area the location was- 
take Bateman Road south from TN Route 57 for about 3-miles; you will cross over 
the Wolf River; park under the transmission line just south of the Wolf River; 
there is an opening overlooking the marsh on the left (east).

3. Yellow-billed cuckoo

4. Red-headed woodpeckers- possibly nesting

5. Eastern kingbird

6. Great crested flycatcher

7. Gray catbird

8. White-eyed vireo

9. Red-eyed vireo

10. Northern Parula

11. Yellow warbler

12. Yellow-throated warbler

13. Prothonotary warbler

14. Louisiana waterthrush

15. Kentucky warbler

16. Common yellowthroat

17. Yellow-breasted chat

18. Indigo bunting

Allan Trently ajtcorax@xxxxxxxxxxx

Jackson, Madison County, TN



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