[TN-Bird] Kyker Bottoms (Blount Co, east Tenn)
- From: David Trently <dtrently@xxxxxxx>
- To: TN-Bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:00:33 -0400
On Sunday, April 22, Mike Nelson and I birded Kyker Bottoms in Blount County,
east Tennessee (south of Knoxville) from 1:15 - 5:00 p.m. (just because it's
afternoon doesn't mean you shouldn't go birding! :-)
We were hoping for Sedge and Marsh Wrens and rails. We didn't get any of those
wrens (might have heard one or two Sedge Wrens but couldn't tell for sure) but
did find at least 5 SORA. We were able to watch one feeding for quite a while
before it disappeared into the marsh.
In various areas as we walked around the marshes we found WILSON'S SNIPE.
Throughout the afternoon we heard a sound I'm not familiar with, though it
reminded me of the call of Snipe which I heard once in norther Michigan. Has
anyone ever heard snipe calling in Tennessee?
The only ducks present were 16 BLUE-WINGED TEAL and a lone male MALLARD.
Besides the snipe, 7 other individual sandpipers were seen.
The prize of the afternoon was a HENSLOW'S SPARROW in a line of trees near the
barn. Mike and I had been talking about making a trip to middle Tennessee to
see this life bird for him, but now he's seen it in east Tenn.
Other birds of note...
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER along the stream.
A probable Vesper Sparrow seen near the overlook. Didn't get to view it very
long, but it was not any of the other sparrows we saw this day.
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard - 1
Blue-winged Teal - 16
Northern Bobwhite
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron - 5
Turkey Vulture
Red-shouldered Hawk
Sora - 5
American Coot - 2
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Wilson's Snipe - 10
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
White-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Palm Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow - ?
Savannah Sparrow
Henslow's Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Brown-headed Cowbird
American Goldfinch
Number of Species: 50
Odonates of note:
Skimming and Orange Bluet
a few Lancet Clubtails
Blue Corporals
butterflies of note:
Zebra Swallowtail
American Lady
Juvenal's Duskywing
David Trently
Avian Pursuits Nature Tours
Knoxville, TN
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