Cold and windy, but it still turned out to be an excellent birding day at Kyker. Another unusual visitor today in a Great Egret (photo below). The immature Little Blue Heron was still feeding in the same area near the duck blind, at the paved parking lot. And maybe the most fun news for me .... My first acceptable image of a Wilson's Snipe!
Kyker Bottoms Refuge, Blount, US-TN Apr 22, 2012 8:00 AM - 12:34 PM Protocol: Traveling 3.75 mile(s) 55 species Canada Goose 12 Gadwall 1 Mallard 3 Blue-winged Teal 1 Wild Turkey 3 American Bittern 1 http://bhowdy.smugmug.com/Most-Recent/Most-Recent-Images/i-9sks3Kx/0/L/americanbittern001-L.jpg http://bhowdy.smugmug.com/Most-Recent/Most-Recent-Images/i-XVXLzpx/0/L/americanbittern002-L.jpg Great Blue Heron 3 Great Egret 1 http://bhowdy.smugmug.com/Most-Recent/Most-Recent-Images/i-ChkwH35/0/L/greategretdiagnostic3-L.jpg http://bhowdy.smugmug.com/Most-Recent/Most-Recent-Images/i-kBWNxRh/0/L/greategretdiagnostic4-L.jpg Little Blue Heron 1 http://bhowdy.smugmug.com/Most-Recent/Most-Recent-Images/i-XwBff77/0/L/littleblueheron002-L.jpg Green Heron 3 http://bhowdy.smugmug.com/Most-Recent/Most-Recent-Images/i-r4WTsbq/0/L/greenheron001-L.jpg Turkey Vulture 6 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Killdeer 7 Lesser Yellowlegs 3 Wilson's Snipe 3 http://bhowdy.smugmug.com/Most-Recent/Most-Recent-Images/i-fxQH4jg/0/XL/wilsonssnipe000-XL.jpg Mourning Dove 9 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 3 Northern Shrike 1 White-eyed Vireo 2 Red-eyed Vireo 1 Blue Jay 4 American Crow 15 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 6 Tree Swallow 6 Barn Swallow 6 Carolina Chickadee 2 Carolina Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Eastern Bluebird 5 American Robin 4 Gray Catbird 1 Northern Mockingbird 2 Brown Thrasher 3 European Starling 2 Cedar Waxwing 20 Common Yellowthroat 5 Hooded Warbler 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 Yellow-breasted Chat 50 Chipping Sparrow 2 Field Sparrow 25 Song Sparrow 25 White-throated Sparrow 6 Northern Cardinal 7 Indigo Bunting 50 Red-winged Blackbird 50 Eastern Meadowlark 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 12 Orchard Oriole 2 American Goldfinch 5 Bob Howdeshell Maryville, Tennessee bhowdy.smugmug.com
