[TN-Bird] KTOS Hawk Watch field trip results - Great Smoky Mts, Blount Co, east Tenn

On Saturday, September 20, the Knoxville Chapter of the Tennessee 
Ornithological Society held a hawk watch on the Foothills Parkway in the Great 
Smoky Mountains National Park in Blount County. As usual, we started at the 
point where the currently open portion of the Parkway begins, just off US 321. 
There was unusually low bird activity here...until we walked past the gate a 
short distance onto the incomplete portion of the Parkway, as far as the 
bridge. Here we had the treat of being able to look down into the trees where a 
large flock of warblers was moving through. No thrushes, no tanagers, one 
unidentified vireo. Numbers listed for warblers is certainly lower than the 
actual number, but I only counted what I saw for sure and believed where 
different birds.
 
By 10:00 we were on our way to the hawk watch point, where there are paved 
parking areas on both sides of the Parkway. (N 35.67774 W 83.89157) Bird 
activity was uncharacteristically low here. It took a long time before we 
finally saw a couple of Broad-winged Hawks - flying more distant that they 
usually do at this ahwk watch. Luckily, we were treated to a slow fly-over of a 
Peregrine Falcon, and eventually a single kettle of 20 Broad-wingeds.
 
Luckily the weather was great and it was nice just scanning the skies, even if 
we see fewer Broad-wingeds every year from this point.
 
Our results:
 
Wild Turkey - 14
Great Blue Heron - 1
Black Vulture - 5
Turkey Vulture - 12
Broad-winged Hawk - 28
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1
unidentified raptor species - 10
Chimney Swift - 75
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 5
Red-headed Woodpecker - 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Hairy Woodpecker - 1
Pileated Woodpecker - 4
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3
Blue Jay - 6
American Crow - 12
Common Raven - 1
Tree Swallow - 1
Carolina Chickadee - 6
Tufted Titmouse - 2
White-breasted Nuthatch - 2
Carolina Wren - 7
American Robin - 2
Cedar Waxwing - 6
vireo species - 1
Tennessee Warbler - 9
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 4
Magnolia Warbler - 9
Black-throated Green Warbler - 3
Blackburnian Warbler - 3
Yellow-throated Warbler - 1
Pine Warbler - 1
Bay-breasted Warbler - 1
Black-and-white Warbler - 3
American Redstart - 3
Hooded Warbler - 2
Northern Cardinal - 5
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 5
Indigo Bunting - 2
American Goldfinch - 5
Number of Species: 40
 
David Trently
Knoxville, TN
Avian Pursuits Nature Tours
http://avianpursuits.com/
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