And a huge thanks to Cyndi and Steve for hosting and leading this most
enjoyable and highly successful event!!
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On Feb 19, 2017, at 7:25 PM, Steve Routledge <sroutledge1957@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:=================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER====================
2/19/2017
This weekend forty-seven birders enjoyed a wonderful weekend at Paris Landing
State Park and surrounding environs. Birders from Memphis to Kingsport
gathered to enjoy the wintering waterfowl as well as each other's company as
the group totaled 95 species seen or heard collectively. Besides the variety
of birds we were seeing, another major highlight was the generous BBQ lunch
hosted by Joan Howe and the refuge staff and Friends of TNWR. The
complimentary hospitality room provided by Paris Landing State Park served as
the perfect venue to unwind both Friday and Saturday night. As always, it was
great fun catching up with old friends and making several new ones.
Here is a summary of birds reportedly seen or heard as far as we know now:
Greater White -fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Wild Turkey
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Northern Harrier
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Forster's Tern
Mourning Dove
Eastern Screech Owl
Barred Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
American Crow
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmice
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Carolina Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Pine Warbler
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Honorable mention: Golden Eagle at the Duck River Unit seen Friday
So there you have it! Thanks to everyone who travelled from far and wide to
join us this weekend. You really helped to make our winter meeting a rousing
success. Hope to see everyone (and all others) again very soon. Mark your
calendars for the first weekend in May for our Annual Spring Meeting in
Knoxville and for the first weekend in October for our Fall Meeting for the
very first time in Kingsport!!
Good Birding to One and All !!!
Steve and Cyndi Routledge
Clarksville/ Montgomery County