Debi Campbell, Charles Moore, Jim Anderson, and I birded areas in
Sullivan County today. Highlights:
My residence as we gathered to set out:
Cooper's Hawk, 1 imm.
Paddle Creek Pond:
Ring-necked Duck 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Am Kestrel 3
E. Screech Owl 1
Sugar Hollow Dr./Peoples Rd.:
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Weir Dam:
Wigeon 20
Ring-necked Duck 7
Bufflehead 22
Ruddy Duck 8
Great Blue Heron 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
S. Holston Lake Dam overlook:
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Common Raven 1
Rooty Branch Rd. beaver pond:
Gadwall 6
Green-winged Teal 2
Bufflehead 1
Hwy 44:
Great Blue Heron 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Musick's Campground:
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Sandhill Crane 1 Charles spotted this as the
rest of us were packing up to leave!
Ring-billed Gulls ~700
in Virginia, just north of the Spring Creek Bridge:
Loggerhead Shrike 1
Am. Kestrel 2
Hwy 421 boat launch:
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Horned Grebe 1
Ring-billed Gull 40
Middlebrook Lake:
Mute Swan 1
Ring-necked Duck 23
Hooded Merganser 15
Great Blue Heron 2
Pied-billed Grebe 2
Coot 10
Ring-billed Gull ~300
Weather was great--it was a great day for birding!
Roy Knispel
Johnson City
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