[TN-Bird] Brainerd Levee and Standifer Gap Marsh

From: "BirdsandTrails" <BirdsandTrails@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "TN-Bird" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 08:03:46 -0400
Yesterday at Brainerd Levee - in Hamilton  county -  I along with Betty 
Warmpler had Bobolinks (two males and two females) and a single Black-billed 
Cuckoo.  The Bobolinks were on the horse pasture side of the levee and the 
cuckoo was across the levee and closer up to the school playground.  Betty saw 
the red eye (I didn't) but I saw the body inc. tail  - and the black bill as it 
flew. Wish I had seen the red eye, but...
Around the second curve   (facing the school) we had:
Semipalmated Plovers
2 White-rumped Sandpipers
1 Baird's Sandpiper
2 Lesser Yellowlegs  (they left soon after I arrived)
2 greater Yellowlegs (they arrived about 45 minutes after I arrived)
Least Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
1 Black-bellied Plover.  Betty got us on this and the next time we looked for 
it - it was no where to be found.
Five swallows 


Later in the afternoon at Standifer Gap Marsh 
I had great looks for over five minutes at a Least Bittern as it flew from 
nearby a few feet from me and landed about twenty feet away from me.
Best looks I've had this year at this bird.

Also had one Vesper Sparrow - along the edge of the marsh as I walked from the 
dirt road.

And I finally got my Yellow Warbler for the year.

We are going back to the levee this morning and hoping for more shorebirds.

Carol Fegarido
Collegedale - Chattanoooga
Hamilton Country
=================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER=====================

The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with
first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation.
You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds
you report were seen.  The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should
appear in the first paragraph.
_____________________________________________________________
      To post to this mailing list, simply send email to:
                    tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
_____________________________________________________________ 
                To unsubscribe, send email to:
                 tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
            with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field.
______________________________________________________________
  TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society 
       Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s)
        endorse the views or opinions expressed
        by the members of this discussion group.
 
         Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN
                 wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
                ------------------------------
                Assistant Moderator Andy Jones
                         Cleveland, OH
                -------------------------------
               Assistant Moderator Dave Worley
                          Rosedale, VA
__________________________________________________________
         
          Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society
              web site at http://www.tnbirds.org
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

                          ARCHIVES
 TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/

                  EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES
Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp
Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif
Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com

_____________________________________________________________
[TN-Bird] Brainerd Levee and Standifer Gap Marsh

Other related posts:
