[TN-Bird] Chattanooga RBA #8
- From: "Kevin A. Calhoon" <kac@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:34:48 -0400
This is Kevin Calhoon with the Chattanooga RBA, sponsored by the
Chattanooga Chapter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society.
This is Update Number #8 made on April 6, 2004.
You can call the RBA at 423 -821-4381.
More and more spring migrants are arriving!
I (Kevin Calhoon) waded the Brainerd Levee yesterday (Aprl 5). With the
lack of recent rainfall and the destruction of the beaver dam near Brainerd
High School the water level was low making it very wadeable. Here are the
highlights: 2 AMERICAN BITTERNS, 1 Green Heron, 1 Sora (thought there would
be more), 4 Least Sandpipers, 3 Greater Yellowlegs, 2 Lesser Yellowlegs, 106
Wilson's Snipe, 8 CHIMNEY SWIFTS (my first for the year), 2 Brown-headed
Nuthatches (the first I have ever seen at the levee, they were hanging arond
a cavity in a snag in the wet woods), 25 Rusty Blackbirds.
The TOS fieldtrip to the Cravens House on April 4 was cold and windy but
some good birds were seen. Highlights included: 1 LOUSIANA WATERTHRUSH (I
have been surveying the Cravens House area for 10 years and this is the
first!), 4 BLACK AND WHITE WARBLERS, 12 Black-throated Green Warblers, 6
Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, 2 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS (my first of the spring), 2
Purple Finchs (at my feeder) 1unidentified Thrush (probably Hermit). (Kevin
Calhoon)
At Standifer Gap Marsh on April 2 was the first GREAT EGRETof the spring, at
least 4 Virginia Rails and the first SORA of the season (Libby Wolfe, Janice
Chadwell) The AMERICAN BITTERN was flushed again by David Patterson there
on March 31.
The first GREEN HERON of the season was in the marshy area near the TVA test
track below Chickamuaga Dam. (Jonnie Sue Lyons)
The first WOOD THRUSH of the season was in Ooltewah on April 1. (Libby
Wolfe)
The first RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD of the season was seen on Lookout
Mountain on March 31. (Ellen Whitaker)
Carol Fegarido still has a female RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD at her house in Apison.
It has been there since the winter. For information email her at
BirdsandTrails@xxxxxxxxxxxx
There is a Bald Eagle nest at the lake of the Raccoon Mountain Storage
Facility in Marion county. It has two chicks and is about .5 miles from the
road around the lake, easily viewable with a scope. (Brainard Cooper, Dan
Williams)
The next general meeting of the Chattanooga TOS will be on April 9 at
7:00 PM at UTC. For meeting details check The Chat.
Get out in the Field and let me know what you see!!
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