Fort Patrick Henry Dam & TVA Trail May 9, 2012 Sullivan County Wood Duck 1 Mallard 9 Double-crested Cormorant 9 Great Blue Heron 49 Black-crowned Night-Heron 3 Black Vulture 2 Turkey Vulture 1 Osprey 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 American Kestrel 2 Killdeer 1 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Rock Pigeon 2 Mourning Dove 3 Chimney Swift 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Eastern Phoebe 3 Great Crested Flycatcher 4 Eastern Kingbird 5 Note: Watched as one of these birds attacked a Northern Roughed-winged Swallow as it was passing by. It lached onto its back bringing it to the ground before letting it go for passing to close to its tree. Interesting that the Orioles and Kingbirds tolerate each other to nest in the same tree. They seem to have no issue with each other. White-eyed Vireo 1 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 6 Tree Swallow 5 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 7 Cliff Swallow 16 Barn Swallow 1 Carolina Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 3 Carolina Wren 2 House Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 1 Northern Mockingbird 2 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 13 Northern Parula 2 Yellow-throated Warbler 1 Yellow-breasted Chat 2 Eastern Towhee 2 Field Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 5 Indigo Bunting 15 Red-winged Blackbird 2 Common Grackle 8 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Orchard Oriole 7 Baltimore Oriole 2 House Finch 1 American Goldfinch 4 Rob Biller Elizabethton, TN Sent from my iPhone