[TN-Bird] Kingston Steam Plant, Saturday, 1/12/08

Spent another delightful afternoon trudging around Kingston Steam Plant in 
Roane County, Tenn. Sat., 1/12/08, from 1:20 to 4:50 pm A beautiful adult RED 
SHOULDERED HAWK posed cooperatively in a tree close by for 5 minutes or more, 
sometimes looking right at me and deciding that I was harmless.  Seven sleepy 
COMMON GOLDENEYES drifted down the river occasionally raising their heads.  
Sixteen huge black birds flew low overhead toward the trees across Swan Pond 
Road (DOUBLE CRESTED CORMORANTS but what a sight!).  Later spotted 6 in the 
river on the back side of the ponds. And those comical, jaunty looking HOODED 
MERGANSERS kept popping up just about everywhere; they're skittish and keep 
moving around making it devilishly had to count them, so I just counted the 
largest concentration on the large pond (where there had been just 29 an hour 
or so earlier).  This is what I counted: Canada Goose     19Gadwall     1 
maleMallard     6Green-winged Teal     1 maleBufflehead     1 female (soccer 
field pond)Common Goldeneye     7 (2 M, 5 F)Hooded Merganser     
83Double-crested Cormorant     16Great Blue Heron     5Red-shouldered Hawk     
1American Kestrel     1American Coot     2Killdeer     2Ring-billed Gull     
~70Belted Kingfisher     2Northern Flicker     2Blue Jay     3American Crow     
5Carolina Chickadee     1Tufted Titmouse     6Eastern Bluebird     15American 
Robin     4Northern Mockingbird     1Song Sparrow     16American Goldfinch     
3 Carole Gobert, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
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