[Bristol-Birds] Cormorant nests
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 20:03:00 -0400
Double-crested Cormorants were found nesting today
(3 April 2011) at Miller Island along the Holston River
in Hawkins County, TN.
The small rookery has, what appears to be, four Great
Blue Heron nests and definitely (at the least) two (2)
cormorant's nests. The cormorants sitting on nests
could clearly be observed with 60x spotting scope
magnification at about 650 yards. Two other
cormorants were observed perched in the tree. The
heron nests were at the crown of the tree above the
cormorants.
Because the small colony is very low in Sycamore
trees, it is difficult to make sure no nests were
missed in the count.
This is the same location as the colony found there
20 Jan 2006 by Chris O'Bryan and Wallace Coffey
which had 15 nests and was again found active on
4 Feb 2006 by O'Bryan, Coffey, Charlie Parker
and Rick Phillips.
Let's go birding . . . .
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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