[TN-Bird] Old Hickory Lake field trip results
- From: JanKShaw@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:30:14 EST
12-13-08
Old Hickory Lake
Davidson and Sumner counties
NTOS members enjoyed a cold morning at Old Hickory Lake, starting with a
fogged in lake, but ending in partial sunshine. Some highlights included a
flock of beautiful Hooded Mergansers in a pond across from Drake's Creek, one
adult Bald Eagle soaring over the same area, one Least Sandpiper at Snow
Bunting
Peninsula (Dean Edwards, we needed you there for a Snow Bunting sighting),
close-up looks at Bonaparte's Gulls, one Tree Swallow at the mouth of Drake's
Creek thanks to Chris Sloan (a new late date for the Nashville Area), lots of
kinglets along the nature trail by the dam, 2 Pine Warblers in the same pine
woods, and good looks at striking Fox Sparrows and White-crowned Sparrows.
Canada goose
mallard
northern shoveler
green-winged teal (flyovers)
ring-necked duck
bufflehead
hooded merganser
ruddy duck
common loon (only one)
pied-billed grebe
horned grebe
double-crested cormorant
great blue heron
great egret (one at Drake's Creek)
black-crowned night-heron
black vulture (hundreds roosting below the dam)
turkey vulture (only a couple)
bald eagle
red-shouldered hawk
red-tailed hawk
American kestrel
American coot
killdeer
least sandpiper
Bonaparte's gull
ring-billed gull
herring gull (2 first winter)
rock pigeon
mourning dove
belted kingfisher
red-bellied woodpecker
yellow-bellied sapsucker
downy woodpecker
hairy woodpecker
northern flicker
pileated woodpecker
eastern phoebe
blue jay
crow
tree swallow
Carolina chickadee
tufted titmouse
brown creeper
Carolina wren
winter wren
golden-crowned kinglet
ruby-crowned kinglet
hermit thrush
robin
mockingbird
starling
American pipit (flyovers at Snow Bunting Peninsula)
cedar waxwing
yellow-rumped warbler
pine warbler
eastern towhee
field sparrow
fox sparrow
song sparrow
swamp sparrow
white-throated sparrow
white-crowned sparrow
cardinal
goldfinch
Jan Shaw
Nashville, TN
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