[TN-Bird] Yellow-crowned Night Heron on 3rd Creek Greenway, Knoxville

From: Christopher Welsh <cwelsh@xxxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:27:07 -0400
Knoxville
Knox County
East Tennessee

While running on the 3rd Creek Greenway in Knoxville yesterday (4/21/09)
evening around 6:00 p.m. I saw a single Yellow-crowned Night Heron.  It was
located between the 2.0 and 2.25 mile markers on the greenway.  I saw it
first from near the bridge just west of the 2.0 marker (looking upstream),
and saw it well enough to distinguish it from Black-crowned by overall gray
body and light-colored crown.  I could not see it from the greenway as I ran
further, so I bush-whacked over to the edge of the creek and was able to see
it better from about 50 m away.  From there I could see the white on the
face bordered above and below by black.  Very nice bird!

Yellow-crowned Night Herons nested on the 3rd Creek Greenway several years
ago (as many as 4 nests if I remember correctly), but I have not heard any
reports of them here since then.  I did not see any nests near where I saw
this bird.  

[For those not familiar with the mile markers on 3rd creek -- The 0.0 mark
is at Neyland Drive.  Tyson Park is between 1.0 and 1.25.  If you park at
the Laurel Church of Christ (3457 Kingston Pike) and walk down to 3rd Creek,
you hit the 3rd Creek Greenway at mile marker 2.5.  The old Bi-Lo (Earthfare
in June) is at mile marker 3.75. ]

Chris Welsh
Knoxville, TN

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