Gil Derouen, Kathy Noblet, Debi Campbell and I birded some Sullivan
County water areas on Tuesday, January 17. Kathy Noblet already sent
examples of some of her neat pictures from that trip. Here is a summary
of locations we checked and some of the species we saw.
Paddle Creek:
Lesser Scaup 1 pr.
*Eastern Screech Owl
Am Kestrel, Cooper's Hawk, and 2 Red-tailed Hawks
Weir Dam:
Wigeon 25
Ring-necked Duck 3
Bufflehead 36
Ruddy Duck 7
*Brown Creeper, Golden-crowned and Ruby-crowned Kinglets, and Winter Wren
S. Holston Lake Dam overlook
Bufflehead 2
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Beaver Dam off Rooty Branch Rd.
Gadwall 5
*Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Musick's Campground
Common Loon 1
Eared Grebe 2
Horned Grebe 5
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Bald Eagle 1 imm.
Bonaparte's Gull 4
Middlebrook Lake
Ring-necked Duck 15
Hooded Merganser 40
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Coot 17
Ring-billed Gull ~600
Old Beaver Creek Rd.
*Common Merganser 2 female
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Also, Am. Kestrels along Silver Grove Rd. (1) and Pemberton Rd. (2) and
a Red-tailed Hawk along Hwy 44.
*birds in Kathy Noblet's photographs
Roy Knispel
Johnson City
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