[TN-Bird] accipiter nesting

From: Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>
To: TN-Bird <TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:48:11 -0800 (PST)
Hello folks,

Yesterday, Wednesday February 23, I saw an accipter carrying nesting
material.

The location was the very north end of Montvale Road (also called SR
336) in Maryville, Blount County.  The bird was flying east over the
cemetary, only about 20 feet above the ground.  This is in the
direction of a well-established neighborhood near Maryville College
which has many mature trees and some areas of nearly full canopy.  It
is also in the direction of Maryville College Woods, though the
height at which this bird was flying leads me to believe it was going
to somewhere closer than that.

I didn't get a spectacular view, but suspect it to have been a
Sharp-shinned Hawk.

The material was rather long and a bit sparse.  Probably about 18-24
inches longe, and perhaps as thick as a pencil.

Charlie

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Charlie Muise, Naturalist in
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


                
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