[TN-Bird] Wild Pear Pond, Douglas Lake

From: Michael Sledjeski <mtnsylva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 11:18:14 -0500
Jefferson county, 1/1/09
Douglas Lake elevation: 954.4 ft.

We heard about the pond at Wild Pear Estates from a local birder last  
winter and found our way over there on New Year's Day.  It's located  
on the edge of a high-end subdivision about a mile south of Swann's  
(I-40)  Bridge.  We crossed over the interstate from 25/70, turned  
left, then right on Arbor Lane to a panoramic overlook of the pond.   
Odd to see that many wild waterfowl so close to houses and traffic.   
We then drove past the pond to a view of the lake.  Later, we circled  
back to Baneberry and walked toward Taylor Bend, just in time to   
photograph a flight of sandhill cranes dropping down to join a crowd  
of great blue herons  (photos start at http://www.pbase.com/sylvafoto/ 
image/107701203)


Highlights  - Wild Pear Pond area :
Snow goose
Canada goose (ca. 100)
Gadwall (10)
Green-winged teal (8)
Canvasback (4)
Redhead
Bufflehead (10)
Hooded merganser (4)
Northern harrier
Red-tailed hawk
Am. coot (5)
Bonaparte's gull (ca.10)
Ring-billed gull (300+)
Purple finch (5)

Taylor Bend:
Green-winged teal (28)
Hooded merganser (16)
Red-br. merganser (5)
odd duck - black & white, with black bill, quacking like a mallard
  image at http://www.pbase.com/sylvafoto/image/107701410
Great blue heron (48)
Sandhill crane (15)
  image at http://www.pbase.com/sylvafoto/image/107701372

Cocke county:

On the way home, we saw our first shorebirds of the year - 44  
killdeer, foraging with some ring-billed gulls in a muddy pond at  
Dutch Bottoms.

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Del Rio TN




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