Location: Pine Knob Kayak Percy Priest Observation date: 6/5/11 Notes: Kayaking route map http://www.runningmap.com/?id=281776 - 7+ miles! Number of species: 55 Canada Goose 5 Wood Duck 1 Mallard 30 Wild Turkey 3 Double-crested Cormorant 4 Great Blue Heron 60 Cattle Egret 1 Black-crowned Night-Heron 7 Black Vulture 1 Turkey Vulture 2 Bald Eagle 1 (Being harassed for 15 minutes by a Blue Jay. The Blue Jay was calling for back-up but no one came. Must be the Blue Jay who cried Eagle one too many times!) Rock Pigeon 1 Mourning Dove 3 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 7 Downy Woodpecker 5 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 2 Acadian Flycatcher 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 4 Eastern Kingbird 6 White-eyed Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 10 Blue Jay 20 American Crow 4 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2 Tree Swallow 1 Barn Swallow 1 Cliff Swallow 1 Carolina Chickadee 53 Tufted Titmouse 21 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Carolina Wren 14 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 American Robin 2 Northern Mockingbird 2 American Redstart 1 Prothonotary Warbler 14 (They were everywhere and very vocal. Lots of great long and close looks) Louisiana Waterthrush 1 Eastern Towhee 1 Field Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 2 Summer Tanager 2 Northern Cardinal 32 Indigo Bunting 1 Red-winged Blackbird 1 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Common Grackle 8 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Orchard Oriole 2 Baltimore Oriole 1 American Goldfinch 2 Charlie B. Dahan Associate Professor MTSU's Recording Industry Department Agent at The Roots Agency