Saturday
August 10th
TN-NWR- Duck
River unit
Twelve
birders participated in today's field trip to the Duck River Unit of TN-NWR. A
big hearty "Thank you !!" to Frank Fekel for coordinating the field
trips these last two years. Our most noticeable "miss" was the
Roseate Spoonbill. We took two separate loops around Blue Goose Boulevard but
still came up empty handed. On a brighter note we saw 61 species solidly with
two other possibilities including: a distant Forster's/Common Tern resting on a
log in the Tennessee River and an unidentified owl, large enough to be a second
Great Horned ( we saw one earlier perched pleasantly on an open snag in the
noon day sun) or possibly a Barred. We also got to enjoy splendidly close looks
at a Western Willet and what appeared to be the prairie subspecies of Short-billed
Dowitcher foraging side-by-side along the most southern side of the Blue Goose
Boulevard. Another welcome find was a group of 12-15 Little Blue herons with at
least three in adult plumage and a large flock (30+) of Black Terns flying
along the far side of the Tennessee River as viewed from the trail that runs by
the New Johnsonville pump house.
Our list
included:
| Canada Goose - 75 Wood Duck -2 Mallard - 6 Wild Turkey -5 Pied-billed Grebe- 2 Double-crested cormorant - 71 American White Pelican -5 Great Blue Heron - 45 Great Egret -95 Little Blue Heron - 15 Green Heron -3 Black Vulture -1 Turkey Vulture - 15 Osprey -4 Bald Eagle -1 Cooper's Hawk -1 Red-shouldered Hawk -2 Red-tailed Hawk -1 Killdeer-5 Spotted Sandpiper -4 Solitary Sandpiper-1 Willet -1 Short-billed Dowitcher -1 Caspian Tern -3 Black Tern - 30+ Common/Forster's -1 Mourning Dove -6 Yellow-billed Cuckoo -1 Great-Horned Owl - 1 (2?) Barred Owl - (1) Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 Hairy Woodpecker -1 |
Northern Flicker - 1 Eastern Wood -Pewee - 3 Eastern Phoebe -1 Eastern Kingbird -1 White-eyed vireo -1 Blue Jay -2 American Crows -12 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 52 Barn Swallow - 12 Carolina Chickadee -2 Tufted Titmouse -1 Carolina Wren - 6 Eastern Bluebird-17 American Robin -15 Norhtern Mockingbird -2 Prothonotary Warbler - 2 Common Yellowthroat -9 Northern Parula -1 Palm Warbler -1 Eastern Towhee - 3 Chipping Sparrow -7 Field Sparrow -2 Summer Tanager - 2 Northern Cardinal - 13 Blue Grosbeak -7 Indigo Bunting- 48 Dickcissel -17 Red-winged Blackbirds - 35 Common Grackle - 3 Orchard Oriole - 2 American Goldfinch -2 |
Steve Routledge
