[TN-Bird] Blount - ducks, swallows, cached bat
- From: K Dean EDWARDS <kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Tennessee Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:47:15 -0500 (EST)
Spent some time Sat morning (24 Feb 2007) birding around the
Louisville area of Blount County.
At Hitch Pond and the Phelps Dairy Farm, I had the best
concentration of ducks that I've had there in several years.
On Roy Goddard Rd, found a bat impaled on barbwire as part of
the local Loggerhead Shrike's cache. Appeared to be an Eastern
Red Bat based on what was left. First time I've ever seen a
bat in a shrike cache. I found 3 different shrike caches but
no birds seen. The one on Roy Goddard Road, one on Light Pink
Rd near the intersection with Lowes Ferry Rd, and one at the
Phelp's Dairy Farm.
Highlights:
-- Canada Goose, about 400, scattered locations in pairs and groups
of up to 50. All large.
-- Wood Duck, about 8 at Phelps, 1 at Jackson Bend
-- Gadwall, about a dozen, Hitch Pond
-- American Wigeon, about half dozen, Hitch Pond
-- Mallard, 3 dozen or so at Hitch Pond and Phelps
-- NORTHERN PINTAIL, 4 at Hitch Pond
-- Green-winged Teal, 1 at Hitch Pond
-- CANVASBACK, 3 male, 1 female at Hitch Pond
-- REDHEAD, 1 male at Hitch Pond
-- Ring-necked Duck, ~100 at Hitch Pond
-- Hooded Merganser, 32 at Miser Station Rd
-- Pied-billed Grebe, 2, Scenic Point
-- Great Blue Heron, many on nests at Phelps, 1 on nest in Knox Co
on Toole's Bend
-- Great Egret, 1 at Miser Station Rd
-- American Kestrel, at least 6, scattered locations, 1 pair at
Lashbrooke
-- Sandhill Crane, 16 at dairy farm on Lillard Lane
-- Wilson's Snipe, 1 at Lashbrooke
-- Ring-billed Gull, 500+, scattered locations
-- Bonaparte's Gull, 1, following a boat at Lashbrooke
-- Red-headed Woopecker, 1 near Compass Pt on Holston College Rd
-- Eastern Phoebe, almost every stop
-- Loggerhead Shrike, no birds but 3 different caches found (see
above)
-- TREE SWALLOW, 10+ Miser Station Rd, 30+ Scenic Point
-- Brown-headed Nuthatch, 2, Louisville Point Park
-- American Pipit, 4, Miser Station Rd
-- Palm Warbler, 1, Lashbrooke
Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN
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