[TN-Bird] The Living and the Dead at Louisville Point Park
- From: Carole Gobert <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Tennessee Bird List <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 13:10:31 -0400
Spent an unsettling morning birding Louisville Point Park in Blount County
today. I was walking along the point, having just inadvertently flushed a
Mallard hen from her nest (it held 7 white eggs) when a woman approached me and
asked if I'd seen all the dead birds. I replied that I'd seen just one, a
young Great Blue Heron that had apparently fallen from its nest. We walked
along the river shore heading back toward the boat ramp and she pointed out 4
deceased adult Great Blue Herons, scattered along the shoreline on the rocks;
one was almost skeletal and held a dead fish in its bill. The others were less
decomposed. Also among the dead were a mockingbird beside a picnic table
(looked like it had been dead for a while) and several dead fish beside another
table. The fish were maybe 5-6 inches long, one was headless; they were not
decomposed at all.
At that point I really needed some good news and found it in the form of a Pine
Warbler. I was watching the warbler forage on the ground and low in the trees
when she (maybe he) flew up to a nest in a pine tree where at least 3 hungry
mouths awaited. I watched for a while and saw the feeding repeated. There
were also plenty of living Great Blue Herons, fishing and standing on nests
both at the point and across the river.
Here's what I found:
26 species
Mallard 1
Great Blue Heron
7+ alive, 5 dead
Osprey 1
Killdeer 1
Mourning Dove
3
Eastern Kingbird
3
Blue Jay 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Barn Swallow 3
Carolina Chickadee
1
Tufted Titmouse
1
Brown-headed Nuthatch 1
Carolina Wren
1
Eastern Bluebird
1
American Robin
10
Northern Mockingbird
1 living, 1 dead
European Starling
2
Pine Warbler
4 1 adult and at least 3 young in nest
Eastern Towhee
1
Song Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal
3
Common Grackle
10
Brown-headed Cowbird
1
Orchard Oriole
1 singing
House Finch 1
American Goldfinch
1
Carole Gobert, Knoxville, TN
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