[bristol-birds] Birding with Bert Hale

  • From: Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: 1-A Bristol-Birds <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:20:43 -0300

Bert Hale and Wallace Coffey birded portions of the
Cherokee National Forest and South Holston Lake
in Sullivan Co., TN and Washington Co, VA Tuesday,
(4/16) finding some fun birds throughout the morning.

We counted 7 Eared Grebes at Musick's Campground
and 6 Double-crested Cormorants.  A single=20
Common Tern was floating on a log in the middle of
the lake.  Many Ring-billed Gulls and a couple of=20
Pied-billed Grebes were present.

From the sign-in box at Musick's we could hear a loud
singing White-crowned Sparrow near the garden.  These
birds stay around rather late into the spring.

Near the cove at Brown's Farm along the lake in Virginia
we had our first House Wrens of the spring (2) -- full of
song.

Probably our best discovery of the day was a 100-square
foot area of Climbing Fern growing right along the roadside
in the mountains!  You know how rare that is!  It was
astonishing.  Ken Hale found a great patch some years
ago at Laurel Bed Lake in the Clinch Mountains.  We have
a station for this on the TVA property in the Big Bend=20
downstream from the Weir Dam in Sullivan Co.  It is a
small station.=20

Today's Climbing Fern was at 2,400 feet elevation along
Forest Service Route 32, at Mill Creek in the Offset Area
of  the Cherokee National Forest in Sullivan County, TN.
If you need coordinates for your GPS unit use
36=B0 35' 17.3"N, 81=B0 55' 35.5"W.  That's what our unit read.

During the route through Jacob's Creek, Sowbed Gap
and the Offset,  Bert and I enjoyed a Broad-winged Hawk,
many Black-throated Green Warblers, Eastern Phoebes
building a nest in the up-side-down roots of a fallen tree,
Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Red-eyed Vireo, Black-and-white
Warblers, Ovenbirds, Northern Parulas, Yellow-throated Warbler,
Louisiana Waterthrush, Hooded Warblers and Dark-eyed
Juncos to name a few.

It was a great day to be birding and enjoying nature.

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN




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