Gil Derouen and I birded Sullivan Cty water areas yesterday, Jan. 19. Summary:
Pleasant Grove Rd.: White-tailed Deer 3 Paddle Creek: Green-winged Teal 1 Redhead 28 Greater Scaup 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Killdeer 1 White-tailed Deer 3 Weir Dam: Wigeon 8 Green-winged Teal 1 Bufflehead 30 Ring-necked Duck 5 Ruddy Duck 1 E. Screech Owl 1 S, Holston Lake Dam overlook and road up and back: Ring-billed Gull 15 White-tailed Deer 1 Rooty Branch and Pemberton Rds.: Great Egret 1 Kingfisher 1 Am. Kestrel 2 Colebrook Rd.: Great Blue Heron 1 Hwy 421 Boat Ranp area just past the bridge: Ring-billed Gull 1 Hwy 44: Am. Kestrel 1 Musick's Campground: Pied-billed Grebe 2 Horned Grebe 4 Bald Eagle 1 imm. Peregrine 1 Herring Gull 2Ring-billed Gull 2500 (our best estimate--most I have ever seen here) We watched the Peregrine harass the large body of gulls for 15-20 minutes. It swept back and forth over the flock on the water--they fluttered up and settled down again--over and over. It didn't seem that the Peregrine was really hunting them--just harassing them.
Middlebrook Lake: Am. Black Duck 3 Coot 26 Pied-billed Grebe 2 D. C. Cormorant 2 Ring-billed Gull 1 Roy Knispel Johnson City
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