[TN-Bird] Field trip to see the Eagles on French Broad River

 On Sunday, April 1 the KTOS is planning a birding trip along the French Broad
River to visit Seven Islands (Knox county) and the new Bald Eagle nest on the 
opposite side

of the French Broad River.  We will meet at the Seven Islands parking lot at

7am and do some birding along the paved road until 10am.  At 10am we will meet

in the parking lot and car-pool to the private farm field where the Bald Eagle

nest is located.  You can meet at 10am if you just want to go see the eagle

nest.



It will be about a 20 min. drive from Seven Islands along the French Broad,

although it is just on the other side of the river about a half a mile down

stream.  We will be parking on private land with landowner permission, but we

will want to minimize the number of cars by car-pooling to the site (and then

coming back to Seven Islands after).  We also plan to try to visit an area

where we can observe the 10 Great-blue Heron nests on one of the islands.  We

should get back to Seven Islands by 1pm.



Bring scopes to look at the Bald Eagle nest, because we will also try to

minimize our impact by observing from the other side of the field from the

nest.  We will go rain or shine (as long as we are not in thunderstorms).

Directions to Seven Islands can be found on the TOS website.  If you have any

questions, send an e-mail to Jim Giocomo (jgiocomo@xxxxxxx) or Mark Campen

(mcampen7@xxxxxxxxxxx).  Hope to see you there.



--Jim Giocomo

Knoxville, TN

   
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