[TN-Bird] Seven Islands - Woodcock nest

Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge
east Knox County
4/23/06

Hi Folks,

Today several of us spent the morning getting things ready for the
upcoming bird banding season at Seven Islands.  We were not birding
much, but did note a lot as we did our thing.  About noon Tracey and
Allan arrived and the 3 of us walked around for a while (just long
enough to get one of our dogs sprayed by a skunk and the other a cut
foot!  ugh)

There are MANY Common Yellowthroat, Field Sparrow and Indigo Bunting
all around.  Jim Giocomo showed me a few Field Sparrow nests.

The big highlight of the day was an AMERICAN WOODCOCK nest with one
chick.  We flushed mom and dad, and one of them did a broken-wing
display, which I've never seen the species do before.  We took a
couple pictures, which I've not yet downloaded.

We found a lone singing male PROTHONOTARY WARBLER.  It was funny,
because I'd been listening all day, but didn't hear this guy until
ten past one in the afternoon.

We saw a total of 3 COOPER'S HAWKS and 1, possibly 2 AMERICAN
KESTRELs.

Charlie

*******************************************************************
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

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com 
=================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER=====================

The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with
first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation.
You are also required to list the count in which the birds
you report were seen.  The actual date of observation should
appear in the first paragraph.
_____________________________________________________________
To post to this mailing list, simply send email to:
tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
_____________________________________________________________ 
To unsubscribe, send email to:
tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field.
______________________________________________________________
  TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society 
       Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s)
        endorse the views or opinions expressed
        by the members of this discussion group.
 
         Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN
                 wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

_____________________________________________________________
     Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society
          web site at http://www.tnbirds.org
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp

_____________________________________________________________

Other related posts: