[TN-Bird] Chattanooga RBA #17
- From: "Kevin A. Calhoon" <kac@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To:
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:19:10 -0400
You have reached Kevin Calhoon with the Chattanooga RBA, sponsored by the
Chattanooga Chapter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society.
This is Update Number #17 made on August 27, 2003.
You can call the RBA at 423 -821- 4381.
Aug. 23, 2003
Kingston Steam Plant
Roane Co.
The Chattanooga chapters field trip lead by John Henderson (his computer is
down for about a week) was quite successful. The sky was a slight bit
overcast
so the heat wasn't it's usual problem. It had rained recently so there was
no powdery dust and there were many great shore birds to pick through!
Birds
of interest included:
Grasshopper Sparrow 3 At the parking area
Caspian Terns 2
MARBLED GODWIT 1
Western Sandpiper 12
Least Sandpiper 20+
Solitary Sandpiper 4
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1
Semipalmated Plover 1
Stilt Sandpiper 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
White-rumped Sandpiper 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Pectorial Sandpiper 6
Osprey 2 or 3
Great Egret 2+ at the steam plant area and another 12
to 15 "white
birds" in some trees across the
river
about a mile away.
(Jimmy Wilkerson)
I stopped by the Kinston Steam Plant on August 25 and had many of the same
birds (minus the godwit) plus a Bairds Sandpiper.
(Kevin Calhoon)
A Snowy Egret was present at the Brainerd Levee on August 18 through at
least the 22. (Betty Wampler, Kevin Calhoon)
The horse pasture is dry at the levee but the habitat behind the school
should be getting better for shorebirds as it dries.
I (Kevin Calhoon) had one of my best August passerine movements ever at the
Cravens House (Hamilton co., TN) on the 24th.
With 8 species of warblers and 4 species of vireos. Highlights included:
5 Cerulean Warblers
1 Tennessee
5 Black-throated Green
2 Norther Parula
4 Chestnut-sided
2 Black and White
1 Worm-eating
2 Hooded
2 Yellow-throated Vireo
1 Blue-headed Vireo
2 White-eyed Vireo
4 Red-eyed Vireo
2 Baltimore Oriole
2 Scarlet Tanager
1 Summer Tanager
1 Wood Thrush
3 Indigo Bunting
8 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
The next general meeting of the Chattanooga TOS will be on September 11
7:00 PM at the Accension Luthern Church, 720 South Germantown Rd.
Get out in the Field and let me know what you see!!
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