8/23/2004
Musick's Campground
South Holston Lake, VA
1645 - 1745
TN side:
1 Great Blue Heron
4 Turkey Vultures
1 Red-tailed Hawk
13 American Goldfinches - crossed to VA side
VA side:
3 Green Herons
5 Turkey Vultures
47 Mallards - 17 males in eclipse plumage, 30 females
1 Northern Harrier - female
1 Spotted Sandpiper - basic (non-breeding) plumage
4 Mourning Doves
1 Eastern Phoebe - singing
7 American Crows
5 Barn Swallows
2 Carolina Chickadees
1 House Wren
1 Sleepy Orange
1 Red-spotted Purple
1 Leonard's Skipper
The Northern Harrier was soaring very high over a large field. Then it
parachuted straight down, without retracting its wings at all - until at
roughly 3 meters (20 ft.) above the grass, it dove to the ground, apparently
seizing a small prey item.
I, also, had a pleasant encounter with Virgil "Lightning" Carr (and
Bear, the dog). He gifted me with roughly 10 lbs. of his tomato crop,
including some fine yellow ones.
John R. Hay, III
Kingsport, TN
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