2/12/12 Carter / Johnson Counties Notable birds with notes - other birds at locations below or while traveling in between. Places visited - Rasar Farm (Elizabethton, Carter County), Little Wilbur (Carter County), Watauga Overlook, Cherokee National Forest Recreational areas on Watauga Lake (Carter County), Roan Creek (upper Watauga Lake / Johnson County), Sink Mountain Launch Rd (Johnson County), Silver Lake area (outside Mountain City, Johnson County), Hunter's Swamp (Elizabethton - Carter County), Elizabethton Airport Area - Stoney Creek, Carter County) Tom McNeil Ron Carrico Rob Biller Species List: Greater White-fronted Goose 1 - (re-located at Rasar Farm - at the river on Lincoln Rd, Elizabethton, Carter County) Canada Goose 202 Mallard 41 Bufflehead 138 (Little Wilbur - Carter County) Hooded Merganser 7 (Upper Watauga - Roan Creek - Johnson County)) Ruddy Duck 1 (Little Wilbur) Wild Turkey 27 Pied-billed Grebe 5 Horned Grebe 7 (Upper Watauga - Roan Creek - Johnson County) Great Blue Heron 11 Black Vulture 3 Turkey Vulture 26 Red-tailed Hawk 4 American Kestrel 3 Killdeer 8 Ring-billed Gull 126 Rock Pigeon 118 Mourning Dove 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Blue Jay 16 American Crow 1033 (Large Numbers in the fields around Neva / Mountain City Airport area - Johnson County) Carolina Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Carolina Wren 5 Winter Wren 1 (Sink Mountain Rd - Johnson County) Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Eastern Bluebird 35 Hermit Thrush 1 (Sink Mountain Rd - Johnson County) American Robin 72 Northern Mockingbird 10 European Starling 563 Cedar Waxwing 60 Yellow-rumped Warbler 3 Eastern Towhee 5 Chipping Sparrow 3 (Cambell Rash Rd - Blue Springs Community - Carter County) Field Sparrow 21 Song Sparrow 7 Swamp Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 25 White-crowned Sparrow 12 Dark-eyed Junco 12 Northern Cardinal 16 Eastern Meadowlark 1 House Finch 5 American Goldfinch 60 House Sparrow 3 ----------------------- sent via birdcountr Rob Biller Elizabethton, TN