[TN-Bird] Re: late report - Elizabethton Club field trip to Washington Co.
- From: Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: TN-Bird <TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:10:33 -0800 (PST)
Don,
Keep trying, and don't get too frusterated. Those Giraffes can be
quite secretive this time of year, when they are not out on a
conspicuous perch singing. I've seen them disguised cleverly as
rather tall fence posts.
--- Dnldhlt@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Last Saturday, Jan. 15, 2005, the Elizabethton (Herndon) Chapter of
> TOS held
> a field trip to western Washington County, TN. Participants were
> Dianne
> Draper, Jacki Hinshaw, Don Holt, Reece Jamerson, Rick Knight, Joe
> McGuiness, Mike
> Poe, Brookie & Jean Potter, and Gary Wallace. The ten club members
> met in
> chilly temperatures (26 degrees F) at 8 am in Jonesborough and
> carpooled to
> various hotspots in the area, including Bush Hog Pond, the exotic
> animal farm,
> Keebler Road, and Stockton Road. Several target species were
> found, including
> Loggerhead Shrike, Red-headed Woodpecker, Peregrine Falcon,
> Ostrich, and Yak. Big
> misses were Lapland Longspur, Eurasian Collared Dove, and Giraffe.
> A bonus
> for those who stayed the latest was an albino Red-tailed Hawk on
> Snapp Bridge
> Road who posed graciously for a close-up driveby. A tentative
> total for the
> day was 46 native or naturalized bird species observed:
>
> Great Blue Heron
> Canada Goose
> Mallard
> Peregrine Falcon
> Northern Harrier
> Cooper's Hawk
> Sharp-shinned Hawk
> Red-tailed Hawk
> American Kestrel
> Black Vulture
> Turkey Vulture
> Kildeer
> Common Snipe
> Mourning Dove
> Rock Pigeon
> Belted Kingfisher
> Northern Flicker
> Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
> Downy Woodpecker
> Hairy Woodpecker
> Pileated Woodpecker
> Red-bellied Woodpecker
> Red-headed Woodpecker
> Horned Lark
> American Crow
> Blue Jay
> Carolina Chickadee
> Eastern Tufted Titmouse
> White-breasted Nuthatch
> Carolina Wren
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet
> Eastern Bluebird
> American Robin
> Northern Mockingbird
> Loggerhead Shrike
> European Starling
> Yellow-rumped Warbler
> Northern Cardinal
> Savannah Sparrow
> Song Sparrow
> Swamp Sparrow
> White-crowned Sparrow
> Eastern Meadowlark
> House Finch
> American Goldfinch
> House Sparrow
>
> submitted by
> Don Holt
> Johnson City, TN
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