[TN-Bird] Immature Broad-winged Hawk & Others At The Honors Golf Course

    Saturday afternoon July 19 from 5:15 until 8:15 PM, Kyle Waggener and I 
birded The Honors Golf Course in Ooltewah. We found 48 species. Earlier in the 
day I had seen Turkey Vulture, American Crow, Red-winded Blackbird & Common 
Grackle to make the total for the day 52.
    Most interesting was an adult Broad-winged Hawk with at least one immature 
of which we got good looks. In fact it was "Immature Day" as we saw adults with 
immature Killdeer & Eastern Phoebes also.

     We also got very good looks at a male and female Blue Grosbeak and male & 
female Orchard Orioles. We watched Tree Swallows feeding nestlings who were 
sticking their heads out of a bird box. This is about 3 weeks later than I have 
seen Tree Swallows with nestlings here before. We could not find 
Yellow-breasted Chat although they nested here this year for the first time 
inside the golf course. Now that most nestlings are out of the nest, many bird 
have become much more silent and hard to find. Still we had a good evening.

Bird species included:

Mallard
Wild Turkey (we have had several young raised here this year)
Great Blue Herron
Green Herron
Turkey Vulture
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Killdeer
Rock Pigeon
Morning Dove
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern wood-Pewee
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Blue Jay
American Crow
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Cedar Waxwing
Pine Warbler
Summer Tanager
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
House Finch
American Goldfinch (many eating on natural vegetation)

                                                                        
David Stone
Ooltewah, Tn.
Hamilton Co.

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