[TN-Bird] Kykker Bottoms Bittern, Chota WMA (Blount County)

From: CTSnow8618@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:49:46 -0400 (EDT)
Phil and I spent the morning birding at Kykker Bottoms and Chota WMA.   The 
highlight at Kykker was an American Bittern feeding along  one of the 
levees, apparently with some success.  I couldn't see what it  caught, but did 
see it capture something and down it.  We first spotted it  from the 
observation tower, then parked and walked to see it from the  road.  My first 
for 
Tennessee and one of my favorite birds!  We had a  singing Parula, lots of 
Field Sparrows and a single White-Crowned Sparrow. 
 
At Chota we found a female Hooded Merganser, a pair of  juvenile Bald 
Eagles, Northern Shovelers, Green and Blue-winged Teal, a couple  of Yellowlegs 
(too far to be sure, but I think Greater), 12 White-eyed Vireos,  18 
Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, our foy male Rubythroated Hummingbird, singing Hooded  
Warbler and good numbers of "the usuals".  
 
We wound up with 52 species, not bad!
 
Carolyn and Phil Snow
Loudon, TN
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[TN-Bird] Kykker Bottoms Bittern, Chota WMA (Blount County)

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