[TN-Bird] Merlin, Humpreys County

From: john froeschauer <jdfroesch@xxxxxxxxx>
To: contact Audubon <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:34:56 -0800 (PST)
Today, Marilyn Burgess and I passed through Waverly, in Humphreys County, en 
route to the TN River NWR Duck River Unit, and atop a telegraph pole next to 
the RR tracks paralleling Hwy. 70,  spotted a perched female Merlin. After a 
few minutes, it flew to the ground to catch a mouse, came back up, but was 
scared off by a train. This stretch of track, after some years of driving by 
it, is a productive raptor haunt: we also saw a Red-shouldered and Red-tailed 
hawk and a Kestral along it today, along with the usual Starlings and Pigeons, 
and House Sparrows at Wal-Mart.

At the Duck River Unit in Humphreys County:

Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose - dark and white adults, few juv.
Canada Goose
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Ring-necked Duck
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle - 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Killdeer
Ring-billed Gull
Mourning Dove
American Crow
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Cardinal
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow

John Froeschauer
Nashville






      
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