[TN-Bird] Kingston Steam Plant 8/11 Afternoon

From: "Chuck Lola Estes" <chucklola_estes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:08:22 -0400
Nice overcast afternoon at the Kingston Steam Plant settling ponds in Roane 
County, TN.  We birded from 5:15 to 7:30 p.m. on Friday afternoon (8/11/06).  
There were not many birds but a few interesting ones.  Most of the shorebirds 
seen were on the large eastern-most upper pond.  The Black Tern was on the 
western edge of the western-most lower pond.  The plant is actively dredging 
the very large lower western pond so the water levels of the ponds are 
fluctuating affecting the mud flats and shoreline.  Interesting note on the 
Black Tern.  A birding friend in Central Mississippi had called me the day 
before that he had just seen four Black Tern there.
1. Great Egret - 3
2. Snowy Egret - 2
3. Great Blue Heron - 1
4. Little Blue Heron - 2 immature
5. Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1
6. Wood ducks - 7
7. Ringed-neck Duck - 1
8. Mallards - 12+
9. Canada Goose - 25+
10. Osprey - 1
11. Kestrel - 1
12. Black Tern - 1 (adult nonbreeding)
13. Black-bellied Plover - 1 (adult breeding but starting to molt)
14. Lesser Yellowlegs - 1
15. Spotted Sandpiper - 1
16. Solitary Sandpiper - 2
17. Western Sandpiper - 5
18. Semipalmated Sandpiper - 2
19. Killdeer - 20+
20. Mourning Dove - 80+

Chuck and Lola Estes
Oak Ridge, TN
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