[TN-Bird] Northern Waterthrush, Kentucky Warbler, etc. (Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Jefferson Co., TN)

April 29, 2006
[posting date: April 30, 2006]

I spent 5+ hours yesterday morning and evening birding in Greene County 
and three nearby counties. 

I started by checking a few areas with mature deciduous trees in 
Greeneville.  [Time spent: approximately 0.25 hr.]  A short while later, 
I headed down Highway 11-E and I-81 to the upper Douglas Lake area. 

My first stop was in Leadvale community in Jefferson County, just north 
of the J.M. Walters Bridge on Highway 25-E.  I stopped on Old Airport 
Road, on Leadvale Road, on Leadvale Church Road, and at the TWRA boat 
launch on the shoreline opposite Rankin Bottoms. [Time spent: 
approximately 0.75 hr.]

 >From Leadvale, I traveled south on 25-E to Cocke County, where I 
checked Dutch Bottoms, Lehigh Drive, Industrial Road, Rankin Bridge, 
Rankin Bottoms, Brown Hollow Road, and Rankin Hill Road.  These spots 
form a loop of good sites offering much lake, shoreline, and woodland 
habitat.  Unfortunately, water levels were higher than I expected, so 
there was little habitat for shorebirds and waders. [Time spent: 
approximately 2.50 hr.]

After exiting Rankin Hill Road onto Highway 25-E, I returned to Leadvale 
in Jefferson County and proceeded through southern Hamblen County along 
back roads from the mouth of the Nolichuckey River to St. Paul's 
Presbyterian Church at exit 12 on I-81.  [Time spent: approximately 0.50 
hr.]

I returned to Greeneville via I-81 and Highway 11-E, detouring briefly 
through a few backroad sites in the Mohawk area of Greene County. [Time 
spent: approximately 0.25 hr.]

Much later, toward early evening, I visited a few spots in the Tusculum 
area of Greene County. [Time spent: approximately 1.00 hr.]

Except for finding few shorebirds and waders, I had an excellent day.  
Results appear below.

C  = Cocke County
G = Greene County
H = Hamblen County
J = Jefferson County

Canada Goose (20 C, 2 G, 25 H, 1 J);
Wood Duck (2 C, 2 J);
Northern Bobwhite (C (Rankin Bridge));
Double-crested Cormorant (50 C);
Great Blue Heron (4 C, 1 H);
Green Heron (C);
Black Vulture (9 C, 2 G, 4 J);
Turkey Vulture (14 C, 4 G, 1 H, 2 J);
Osprey (4 C, 1 H);
American Coot (1 G, 1 J);
Solitary Sandpiper (1 C, 1 G);
Ring-billed Gull (C (Dutch Bottoms));
Eurasian Collared-Dove (2 G (adjacent to West Greene High School));
Chimney Swift (1 C, 11 G, 1 H, 1 J);
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (1 C, 1 H);
Eastern Wood-Pewee (J);
Eastern Phoebe (2 C, 1 G);
Great Crested Flycatcher (2 C, 1 G, 1 J);
Eastern Kingbird (3 C, 1 G, 2 J);
White-eyed Vireo (6 C, 2 G);
Yellow-throated Vireo (J);
Warbling Vireo (J (Leadvale Church Road at Cornbread's Auto Mechanic));
Red-eyed Vireo (9 C, 3 G, 1 J);
Tree Swallow (3 C, 2 G, 1 H, 1 J);
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (2 G);
Cliff Swallow (124+ C (Rankin Bridge), 1 J);
Barn Swallow (2 C, 4 G, 2 H, 3 J);
House Wren (16 G);
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1 C, 2 G, 1 J);
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (6 C, 2 G, 1 J);
Wood Thrush (3 C, 1 G);
Gray Catbird (1 C, 3 G, 1 J);
Brown Thrasher (3 C, 1 G);
Cedar Waxwing (75 C, 16 G);
Northern Parula (C);
Yellow Warbler (2 C (Rankin Bottoms));
Cape May Warbler (G);
Yellow-rumped Warbler (7 C, 4 G, 2 J);
Blackburnian Warbler (J);
Pine Warbler (C);
Palm Warbler (C (Rankin Bottoms));
Prothonotary Warbler (7 C, 1 J);
Northern Waterthrush (J (Leadvale Church Road at Cornbread's Auto 
Mechanic));
Kentucky Warbler (C (Lehigh Drive));
Common Yellowthroat (8 C, 3 G, 2 H);
Hooded Warbler (1 G, 1 H);
Yellow-breasted Chat (4 C, 2 G);
Summer Tanager (2 C, 1 J);
Scarlet Tanager (2 C, 1 G);
Chipping Sparrow (3 C, 1 H, 1 J);
Grasshopper Sparrow (H);
Swamp Sparrow (C (Rankin Bottoms));
White-throated Sparrow (2 C, 1 G);
White-crowned Sparrow (H);
Indigo Bunting (29 C, 3 G, 3 H);
Orchard Oriole (7 C, 2 G, 3 H, 1 J);
Baltimore Oriole (1 H, 2 J).

Don Miller
Greeneville, Greene Co., TN



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