[TN-Bird] Chattanooga TOS Birding Trip to Yuchi Refuge
- From: Charles Murray <dro_1945@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Tn Bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:59:48 -0700 (PDT)
Several members of the Chattanooga Chapter of TOS spent about 3 hours and 15
minutes at Yuchi Refuge in Rhea County this morning. A total of 58 species were
recorded on the refuge. Several additional species were seen on the way to
Yuchi. Highlights of the trip included:
* a long and good look at a singing yellow-billed cuckoo
* 6 great egrets
* 6 green herons
* 1 cattle egret at Yuchi and 9 others on Highway 302
* 2 solitary sandpipers
* 2 lesser yellowlegs
* 5 least sandpipers
* 3 pectoral sandpipers
* 4 stilt sandpipers
* 10 killdeer
* 5 woodpecker species: red-headed, red-bellied, downy, northern
flicker, and pileated
* common yellowthroats
* yellow-breasted chats
* wood ducks and mallards
* 1 northern bobwhite quail
* several wild turkeys
* blue grosbeak
* several indigo buntings
* summer tanager
* orchard oriole
* dozens of red-winged blackbirds
The shorebirds were seen in a relatively small flooded area in a corn field
near the Tennessee River. Unfortunately, it appears that this spot will be
dried up in a very few days unless there is substantial rain soon.
Charles Murray
Birchwood, TN
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