Visited Seven Islands State Birding Park (Knox Co.) this morning,
10/20/16. Highlights included a first-of-season NORTHERN HARRIER
hovering over the hillside below Schumpert Pond, a LINCOLN'S SPARROW
along the river on Seven Islands Loop Trail (south of Wayne's Pond
area), and a rare for fall BLACKPOLL WARBLER also along the river on
Seclusion Bend Trail. The Blackpoll was mostly dull yellow with dark
wings, white wing-bars, faint dark eye-line, faint blurry streaking on
breast, clean white undertail coverts, and pinkish-orange legs.
Blackburnian warbler - 1
Blackpoll warbler - 1
Magnolia warbler - 2
Palm warbler - 10+
Indigo bunting - several
Ruby-crowned kinglet - 2
Lincoln's sparrow - 1 (had 1 on Oct 10 near bluebird barn)
White-throated sparrow - 1 (saw several along with 2 White-crowned Oct 16)
Northern harrier - 1
Accipiter species - 1
Red-shouldered hawk - 2 (1 juv. kept moving down Seclusion Bend trail
just in front of me)
Amer. kestrel - 1
Shane Williams
Knoxville, TN
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