[TN-Bird] Kyker Bottoms - Saturday Nov. 25 - Late post

The Kyker Bottoms refuge in Blount County is closed for the winter but you 
can still bird from the parking lots, which is what I did this past 
Saturday.  From the first pull-off by the equipment barn where the shrike is 
usually seen you can scope through the chain link gate and fence to the 
water where there are a lot of ducks.  Saturday the most numerous were Ring 
Necks.  There were also Mallards, Gadwalls, a couple of Coots, a few Green 
Winged Teal and American Wigeons and at least one male Northern Shoveler.  
Many of the birds were sleeping (it was siesta time - around 11 a.m.) and 
they were fairly distant so I couldn't ID them all. Probably 100-200 total 
birds on the water but that's a very rough estimate.

The refuge manager (?) drove up and suggested that I might be able to see 
them better if I walked across the field, which surprised me as I didn't 
think that was allowed at this time of year.  I did give that a try for a 
short distance but discovered that I could see them much better from the 
parking lot, especially since the gate was now open so I was only looking 
through the fence.  He stated that he had been seeing Northern Pintails and 
American Black Ducks also, but I didn't see any during the short time I was 
there.  The Shrike didn't put in an appearance either.

Carole Gobert, Knoxville

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