[TN-Bird] Tricolored Heron - South Holston Lake

TN-Birders:
A Tricolored Heron was observed Saturday, 26 April, at South Holston Lake in
Sullivan County.  This is an accidental species for the five-county area of
Northeast Tennessee and  the third record. 

The adult bird was discovered about 7:20 p.m. in the Green Heron nesting
colony along Tenn. Rt. 44.  The area is the Painter Creek Embayment of the
reservoir near the Virginia border.

It was found by Wallace Coffey, Rack Cross and Don Holt who observed it at
close range with a spotting scope.  Before we left, we watched it fly well
out towards the main channel near Painter Creek Marina.

A short while later, the bird was observed flying far across the lake from
Musick's Campground in the Tennessee portion of the reservoir.  It flew out
of sight and into a distant cove. It was not seen again.

Shirley Wayland saw this species 18 April 1991 at Austin Spring in
Washington County and Brian Cross, Glen Swofford, Frank Ward and others had
a bird 1-2 April 1988 at Elizabethton in Carter County.   Another regional
record, from outside the five-county area, was a bird along the Holston
River in Hawkins County, 1 May 1978, by Linda Duley.

Lets go birding....
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN

 






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