[TN-Bird] yard, and Cades Cove

Hi folks,

I sure was happy this morning to see 5 Purple Finches, 2 Pine
Siskins, and 1 Lincolon's Sparrow in my yard.

For 2 hours I led a group of college students birding at Cades Cove. 
36 bird and 6 butterfly species were nice, as was the Coyote.  And
the weather is gorgeous.

Birds:
Great Blue Heron
Bufflehead (single female)
Wood Duck
Mallard
Canada Goose

(no hawks of any kind)
Turkey Vulture
Wild Turkey
Common Snipe
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - really nice looking male "singing"
Downy Woodpeckers - pair chasing each other
Pileated Woodpeckers - pair acting very secretively
Eastern Phoebe

(no swallows)
American Crow
Blue Jay
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Easten Bluebird (only 3 - unusual)
American Robin
Black-and-white Warbler - my first 3 of the year
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2, still in winter plumage
Louisiana Waterthrush - my first of the year
Chipping Sparrow - several singing
Field sparrow - several singing
Song Sparrow - several singing
Eastern Towhee - one singing
Red-winged Blackbird - displaying
Common Grackle
Eastern Meadowlark - chasing each other like swallows!  very
impressive

America Goldfinch - at least 50 across from the Abrams Creek Trail
road
Pine Siskin - at least 3, in with goldfinches

Butterflies:
Comma
Question Mark
Mourning Cloak - FINALLY my first of year
Spring Azure
Tiger Swallowtail - my first of year
some Yellow - Cloudless Sulphur?

One poorly seen, very small dragonfly (first of the year - wish I
could have identified it)




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Charlie Muise, Naturalist near
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