[TN-Bird] western Percy Priest Lake

From: "Scott Somershoe" <Scott.Somershoe@xxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:46:40 -0500
I birded Anderson Rd Rec Area and Hamilton Creek Rec area (Rutherford Co) this 
morning on the west side of Percy Priest.  Dozens of golden-crowned kinglets 
mingling with resident chickadees and titmice. I couldn't pull out a 
red-breasted nuthatch.  A few ruby-crowned kinglets were present too.

At Anderson Rd, I had a flock of 12 bluebirds chasing and fighting with each 
other and a Field Sparrow perched up in a sapling oak the parking lot and 
watched the broohaha.

On the lake, I found one Horned Grebe, a handful of Pied-billed Grebes, 2 
blue-winged teal, a bunch of mallards, and a ball of 50 coots. No other ducks, 
no terns, gulls, or waterbirds.

At Hamilton Creek by the mtn bike parking lot, I found an immature Eastern 
Wood-pewee foraging constantly.  I had not planned to see much at that stop and 
left my camera in the car.  I got nice looks at the bird in my scope at fairly 
close range.  I went back and got the camera and couldn't relocate the bird of 
course.  The pewee was very much unexpected, but a nice highlight for the day.

Good birding!
Scott Somershoe

State Ornithologist
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
P.O. Box 40747
Nashville, TN 37204
615-781-6653 (o)
615-781-6654 (fax)

www.tnwatchablewildlife.org
www.pbase.com/shoeman
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