[TN-Bird] Holston Hills Rusty Blackbirds, Knox County

From: Carole Gobert <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tennessee Bird List <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:04:54 -0500
This morning around 9:35 a.m. I was at work but driving to my my employer's 
Holston Hills home in east Knox County to look through some files when I saw a 
large flock of blackbirds on a suburban lawn on Crestwood Drive.  Crestwood is 
a quiet street, there was no traffic, so I stopped to check them out and was 
pleasantly surprised to find that a substantial proportion of the birds were 
Rusty Blackbirds.  It was hard to get an accurate count as the birds were in 
constant motion, periodically taking off and flying to the next lawn.  I 
counted up to 35 Rusties, possibly more, maybe fewer.  I didn't attempt to 
count the other species but saw at least 2 female Brown-headed Cowbirds, at 
least 2 red-winged Blackbirds, perhaps 20 starlings and a large number of 
Common Grackles.
 
Carole Gobert, Knoxville, TN                                      
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[TN-Bird] Holston Hills Rusty Blackbirds, Knox County

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