[TN-Bird] NTOS Hickory/Priest field trip results 12/9/06

Old Hickory Dam area, Percy Priest Lake sites, Davidson Co. TN
Dec. 9, 2006
 
Nine hardy NTOS members plus one hardy toddler braved the cold morning air  
to enjoy a beautiful and productive day viewing winter birds in middle TN.
Highlights: At Old Hickory dam nature trail one ORANGE-CROWNED  WARBLER, one 
singing PURPLE FINCH, and a lone WILSON'S SNIPE. At Percy Priest  Lake 178 
HOODED MERGANSERS on Couchville Lake, a reliable spot for them in  winter. A 
female MERLIN was in the usual wintering site at Anderson Rd.  Recreation Area. 
And at sunset Ring-billed Gulls massed in a raft of a  thousand-plus birds out 
in the center of the lake.
 
Richard Connors
Nashville TN
 
Canada Goose
Wood Duck  2
Gadwall  200
American Black  Duck 2
Mallard  400
Northern Shoveler  6
Bufflehead   1
Hooded Merganser  179
Ruddy Duck  8
Common Loon   30
Pied-billed Grebe  20
Horned Grebe  18
Great Blue  Heron   42
Black-crowned Night-Heron  5
Black Vulture   300
Red-shouldered Hawk  2
Red-tailed Hawk  4
American  Kestrel  2
Merlin  1
American Coot
Killdeer
Wilson's Snipe  1
Bonaparte's Gull  17
Ring-billed  Gull  1,200
Herring Gull  1
Mourning Dove
Belted  Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  4
Yellow-bellied  Sapsucker  4
Downy Woodpecker  2
Hairy Woodpecker   2
Northern Flicker  2
Pileated Woodpecker  2
Eastern  Phoebe   3
Blue Jay
American Crow
Carolina  Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Brown Creeper  2
Carolina Wren   2
Winter Wren  1
Golden-crowned Kinglet  20
Ruby-crowned  Kinglet  7
Eastern Bluebird  12
Hermit Thrush   5
American Robin
Brown Thrasher  2
European Starling
Cedar  Waxwing  14
Orange-crowned Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped  Warbler  5
Pine Warbler  1
Eastern Towhee 1
Field  Sparrow  1
Fox Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  1
White-throated  Sparrow  25
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird  8
Eastern  Meadowlark  2
Purple Finch  1
American  Goldfinch  15


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