[TN-Bird] Eagle Bend Fish Hatchery - Blue Winged Teal

From: Carole Gobert <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tennessee Bird List <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 17:03:53 -0400
Spent just under an hour at Eagle Bend Fish Hatchery in Anderson County late 
this morning.  The place was jumping with Cliff and Tree Swallows.... more 
Cliff than Tree.  Water is being added to most all of the ponds, including the 
top one that has been dry for a while.  There was a lot of water on it but no 
birds.  On the last pond in the back of the Hatchery I found 5 Blue Winged Teal 
(3 males, 2 females) and a M/F pair of Wood Ducks.  Almost missed the Wood 
Ducks.  I was scanning the teal when I noticed something in the tall grass of 
the bank behind them; it was the Wood Ducks.

 

I saw no Great Blue Herons at the ponds and just one in a nest; all I could see 
of her was her bill.  Six Double Crested Cormorants were perched on a branch 
below the herony and in the same group of trees as the heronry a Downy 
Woodpecker was frantically trying to drive away a Starling.  A nearby tree had 
a woodpecker hole; perhaps the Downy's nest was in the hole.

 

I checked the Cliff Swallow nests below the bridge across the river but saw no 
activity at the nests.  I guess the swallows were all out to lunch at the 
hatchery.... there were Cliff Swallows at the field next to the boat ramp, but 
none seen at the nests.

 

Carole Gobert, Knoxville, Knox County, TN

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