[TN-Bird] Kingston Steam Plant, Saturday, 1/12/08
- From: Carole Gobert <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Tennessee Bird List <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:13:29 -0500
Spent another delightful afternoon trudging around Kingston Steam Plant in
Roane County, Tenn. Sat., 1/12/08, from 1:20 to 4:50 pm A beautiful adult RED
SHOULDERED HAWK posed cooperatively in a tree close by for 5 minutes or more,
sometimes looking right at me and deciding that I was harmless. Seven sleepy
COMMON GOLDENEYES drifted down the river occasionally raising their heads.
Sixteen huge black birds flew low overhead toward the trees across Swan Pond
Road (DOUBLE CRESTED CORMORANTS but what a sight!). Later spotted 6 in the
river on the back side of the ponds. And those comical, jaunty looking HOODED
MERGANSERS kept popping up just about everywhere; they're skittish and keep
moving around making it devilishly had to count them, so I just counted the
largest concentration on the large pond (where there had been just 29 an hour
or so earlier). This is what I counted: Canada Goose 19Gadwall 1
maleMallard 6Green-winged Teal 1 maleBufflehead 1 female (soccer
field pond)Common Goldeneye 7 (2 M, 5 F)Hooded Merganser
83Double-crested Cormorant 16Great Blue Heron 5Red-shouldered Hawk
1American Kestrel 1American Coot 2Killdeer 2Ring-billed Gull
~70Belted Kingfisher 2Northern Flicker 2Blue Jay 3American Crow
5Carolina Chickadee 1Tufted Titmouse 6Eastern Bluebird 15American
Robin 4Northern Mockingbird 1Song Sparrow 16American Goldfinch
3 Carole Gobert, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
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