[TN-Bird] Least Bittern, Maury County

Finally made my first visit to TWRA's Williamsport Public Fishing  
Lakes in far northwestern Maury County today (May 26, 2009)-- an  
excellent area that deserves an entire day, not just the brief drive- 
by I gave it.  I heard at least one (possibly 2) Least Bitterns call  
from the cattail marshes around the shores of one of the smaller  
lakes -- I think it was the one signed as "Heron Lake."  It was late  
morning and the vocalizations I heard were not the classic cuckoo- 
like song, but the less obvious and more rail/frog-like calls.   
Imitating the "coo-coo-coo" song myself a couple of times did trigger  
one half-hearted response in kind.  Given the cluster of small lakes  
with abundant cattails this would seem like a possible breeding  
area.  Has it been documented from this spot before?

Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
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