[TN-Bird] Kyker Bottoms, Blount Co, east Tenn
- From: dtrently <dtrently@xxxxxxx>
- To: TN-Bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:47:30 -0400
Sunday, August 17, I visited this refuge in sw Blount County, again to look
for dragonflies and butterflies, but also keeping track of the bird species
identified while there. It was not a good place to go for birds today - very
hot and very few birds around...but really good for dragons and butterflies.
In the first hour there I think I found 5 birds!
Here are the lists:
Birds:
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 2
Green Heron 2
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2
Mallard 2
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 6
Belted Kingfisher
Barn Swallow
American Crow
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
N Mockingbird
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-breasted Chat
N Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Blue Grosbeak 2
Field Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird - only 2
Am Goldfinch
Dragonflies (1o species)(well over 100 individuals present!):
Black Saddlebags
Blue Dasher
Common Whitetail
Eastern Pondhawk
Twelve-spotted Skimmer
Halloween Pennant
Common Green Darner
Slaty Skimmer
Widow Skimmer
Eastern Amberwing
Butterflies (16):
Cloudless Sulphur
Clouded Sulphur
E Tiger Swallowtail
Pipevine Swallowtail
Black Swallowtail
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Common Buckeye
Question Mark
Red Admiral
American Snout
American Lady
Tawny Emperor
Monarch
Pearl Crescent
Silver-spotted Skipper
Sachem
also at least two other skipper sp, unidentified.
David Trently
Knoxville, TN
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