[TN-Bird] Re: Egret Question
- From: K Dean EDWARDS <kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Tennessee Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:54:38 -0400 (EDT)
Looking at this, I should probably clearify a point on this recent post.
The Kingston reports would obviously be on the upper part of Watts Bar
Lake that is on the Clinch River. The west Knox Co. reports by Wes and
Chuck were the ones I was referring to as being on Melton Hill Lake.
Since the Clinch River goes through Norris (in Bates' area) then Melton
Hill (Wes and Chuck) and finally dumping into Watts Bar at Kingston, I
was trying to link the sightings as expanding "up the river". Shouldn't
try to post and eat lunch at the same time.
Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, K Dean EDWARDS wrote:
>
>
> Hey, Bates,
>
> Cattle Egrets can be a bit unpredictable in our area (around Knoxville)
> occassionally breeding. They have made a bit of a stir this summer around
> at least 2-3 places in the Melton Hill Lake area. Not sure if this is
> multiple groups or one, wide-ranging group.
>
> There has been a "colony" for several years in the Kingston area. You can
> often see the them at a dairy farm off of the Lawnville Road exit on I-40
> (sorry, can't give exact directions). Not many people go to look for them
> but I think I've always found them the few times I've looked... though I
> haven't been there in a couple years.
>
> They are also often reported at the rookery near Kingston Wildlife Refuge
> near Kingston Steam Plant. In fact, Boyd Sharp reported some there just
> a few weeks ago.
>
> A co-worker who lives out in that general area told me earlier this spring
> that she had 4-5 coming up into their yard on the lake.
>
> Wes James found 4-5 on the Knox County Spring Count near Gallaher Bend on
> the upper part of Melton Hill Lake back on 25 April 2004.
>
> And back on 3 January 2004, Chuck Nicholson found the first Cattle Egret
> for the Knoxville CBC in the Solway area of west Knox Co... again on
> Melton Hill Lake a few miles upstream of Gallaher Bend. A co-worker of
> Kelly Roy told Kelly about seeing a Cattle Egret in the median of
> Pellissippi Parkway in Solway a few days later.
>
> Of course, you would be a good bit NE of Melton Hill up in Andersonville
> but just up the Clinch River on Norris Lake instead of Melton Hill Lake.
> So it's very noteworthy that you are having them there as well. One of my
> co-workers lives in Andersonville (I cover his farm for the Norris CBC)
> and fishes the Clinch River. I'll tell him to keep an eye out.
>
> Dean Edwards
> Knoxville, TN
>
>
> On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Bates Estabrooks wrote:
>
> > TN Birders,
> >
> > Yesterday (8/1) as I drove out of my driveway in rural Anderson County (~25
> > mi. NW of Knoxville) I was surprised by the conspicuous presence of a
> > Cattle Egret standing a few feet from my bumper. Having never seen one in
> > the area before, I was a bit taken aback. Is this an unusual sighting? My
> > old Peterson's doesn't show them being here. Sibley shows them present
> > during migration (Aug. 1?). Any thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Bates Estabrooks
> > Andersonville
> >
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