[TN-Bird] Duck River Float Bird List

My husband Roy & I had a "spur  of the moment" float from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on 
the Duck River just now  in Bedford Co.
We put in at Cortner's Mill and take out at Three Fork's Bridge, as usual.
A delightful & perhaps one of the most beautiful floats we'd ever had, despite 
some downed trees blocking our course.
Highlight Birds were the Hooded Mergansers, high number of winter wrens, and 
Sandhill Crane Flock...
Here  is a list (not in order):
Great Blue Herons  4
*Hooded Mergansers- 3+
Winter Wrens- at least 6
Carolina Wrens 4
E. Phoebe  3
Pileated Woodpeckers 7 (great views)
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker  4
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  6
N. Flicker  2
Robins  35+
Song Sparrow   1
White-throated Sparrows   ~6
Cardinals 6
Blue Jays  15+
Crows   ~6
Un I-d Sparrow  1
Kingfisher- 7
Red Tailed Hawk  3  (1 u-surped a N. Harrier's spot!)
*No Harrier  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Chickadees   ~10
Tufted Titmice  6
*Sandhill Crane Flock- near the end of our float ~4:20...about 40 in this flock

* means we have never observed this species in the Duck River while canoeing. 
The Mergansers we have noted in small quiet pools of the Duck near certain 
bridges, however...

The yellow sun shimmering and peeking behind a darker cloud downriver as we 
took out was a nice ending...then the pink hues took over. I can't get a much 
better way to end the old year and bring in one anew...

Road Species:
Amer Kestrel  2
Goldfinches  small flock
No Mockingbird

Note- 
-Did not hear our usual Great Horned Owl 
-We have not seen the flock of turkeys in one spot we use to see for ~8 mnths 
now (they were always behind a bank and thought we couldn't see them...they 
were rather comical)
-The Kingfishers were more numerous & appeared to be guarding a smaller area 
than usual...
-No Hermit Thrushes seen
-High number of Winter wrens for this run...all in distinctly different 
locations
-No Nuthatches were heard or seen
Non- Bird:
-Saw evidence of beaver (been absent for 1.5 yrs)- one tree he was attempting 
was an osage orange...hmmm...a challenge indeed!
-A small mink most likely (or a small muskrat) slipped off a log into the water 
and disappeared (very smooth entry which caused me to think it was a mink- & it 
never surfaced...we have seen these occasionally on the river although muskrats 
are more in number)

Melissa Turrentine
Normandy TN
Bedford Co
John Sellars Chapter TOS (Wilson Co)


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