[TN-Bird] Blount County morning
- From: Birdglass44@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:31:49 EST
A 3 hour trip in western Blount county produced 51 species between
8:30-11:30. The sky was heavily overcast with occasional light drizzle and
temps
around 50 degrees.
Duck activity was slow with only 5 species seen at Miser Station Road,
Louisville Point Park, Hitch pond, Phelps pond and Scenic Point. 4 Bufflehead
and
14 Green-wing teal were near Miser Station Road, 7 Gadwall and 3 Green-winged
teal were on the stilt pond, 2 Mallards and a lone Green-winged teal were on
Phelps pond, and 2 Ringed-neck ducks, 6 Mallards and 11 Coots were on Hitch
pond. 2 Bonaparte's gulls were at Poland Creek with many Ring-billed gulls
off Louisville Point Park and Scenic Point, a single Herring gull was off
Scenic Point and 3 were observed circling with 40+ Ring-billed gulls near
William
Blount Drive.
Louisville Point Park was very active with 23 species observed. Highlights
were 2 Brown-headed nuthatches, a brilliant Golden-crowned kinglet chasing a
Brown creeper, 8 E. bluebirds and 12+ Goldfinches feeding along the shoreline
and Yellow-belied sapsucker, Downy & Red-bellied woodpeckers and a N.
flicker, 4 Black-crowned night-herons, 1 Double-crested cormorant.
Great blue herons were numerous and a single Great egret was observed from
the Miser Station bridge along with 7 Common snipe and 8 Killdeer. A single
Kestrel and Red-shouldered hawk were the only raptors seen! Sparrows were
hard to find with Song sparrows found a numerous locations but only 6
Dark-eyed
juncos found between 2 stops, 18 Chipping sparrows and 3 Field sparrows were
at another location. Goldfinches were active and seen at a number of
locations. A flock of 36 Robins and 7 Cedar waxwings were found in one tree
at
Scenic Point and 13 Pied-billed grebes were near the entrance gate. 46
Mourning
doves were in trees near the stilt pond.
That's it from Blount County.
Warren Bielenberg
Maryville
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