[TN-Bird] Kyker Bottoms WMA

Kyker Bottoms WMA
South Blount County
2/19/05

Hi folks,

Today a handful of folks from Knoxville Chapter of Tennessee
Ornithological Society braved 21 degree weather, with wind and cloud
cover, to check out Kyker Bottoms WMA.

The wind really kept the dickie birds down, so even though we report
high numbers, there is really no telling what is out there.  We had
fun watching a Red-tailed Hawk get blasted over and over by a pair of
Red-shouldered Hawks.  Several species were singing (Song,
White-throated sparrows, Eastern Bluebirds, Northern Cardinals) and
there were Chorus Frogs singing.  So it sounded more like spring than
it felt.  Unfortunately we missed some good species that have been
reported there by reliable birders in recent days.  Our numbers are
also a lot higher than one birder, and lower than another, so there
is obviously some flux there right now.

The count is:

Canada Goose:  30
Wood Duck:  3
Gadwall: 7
American Wigeon:  30+
American Black Duck:  12
Mallard:  90+
Northern Shoveller:  15
Northern Pintail:  30+
Green-winged Teal:  20
Ring-necked Duck:  4
Hooded Merganser:  2 (at the stream crossing on the eastern terminus
of Kyker Road)

Turkey Vulture:  8
Bald Eagle:  1 (adult)
Northern Harrier:  1 (brown-type female or imm. male)
Red-shouldered Hawk:  2
Red-tailed Hawk:  2

American Coot:  12
Killdeer:  2 (Low number; also, no snipe?)
Mourning Dove:  12
Red-bellied Woodpecker:  2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker:  1 very nice male
Downy Woodpecker:  3
Pileated Woodpecker:  2

(No Loggerhead Shrike:  my first miss there in months!)

Blue Jay: 12
American Crow:  4
Carolina Chickadee:  6
Tufted Titmouse:  2
White-breasted Nuthatch:  3
Carolina Wren:  6
Golden-crowned Kinglet:  3

Eastern Bluebird:  6
American Robin:  100+   This winter I can't go anywhere without
seeing hordes of these guys!
Northern Mockingbird:  3
Brown Thrasher:  1
European Starling:  20
Cedar Waxwing:  20
Yellow-rumped Warbler:  8

Eastern Towhee:  3
Field Sparrow:  10 (low number here - wind is bad)
Savannah Sparrow:  4
Fox Sparrow:  3 (but none in the "usual place" at the middle parking
lot)
Song Sparrow:  100+
Swamp Sparrow 100+
White-throated Sparrow:  15

Northern Cardinal:  4
House Finch:  6
American Goldfinch:  10

Participants:
Charlie Muise (leader)
David Trently
Tony King
Jennifer Kasten
Tim Mountain
Dave Verhulst

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Charlie Muise, Naturalist near
Great Smoky Mountains National Park

"To the dull mind all nature is leaden.  To the illuminated mind 
the whole world sparkles with light."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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