[TN-Bird] cranes, etc in Blount
- From: Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: TN-Bird <TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 15:56:46 -0800 (PST)
Hi folks,
A bit of birding in northwest Blount County paid off with a bird I
completely missed here in 2005: 42 Sandhill Cranes were in the wide,
shallow inlet off the north end of Miser Station Road, just off of
Louisville Road.
They were accompanied by at least 70 Ringbilled Gulls, 2 Belted
Kingfishers a Great Egret and 23 Great Blue Herons. I would not
recommend this location to any fish.
Louisville Point Park had at least 5 Brown-headed Nuthatches and 2
Pine Warblers, in additions to hordes of Carolina Chickadees, both
kinglet species, American GOldfinches and Eastern Bluebirds.
Unfortunately none of the 200+ gulls could be identified as anything
but Ring-billed. A search of several good spots yielded no
Bonaparte's at all.
Charlie
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