[TN-Bird] Old Hickory Lake, 4/16/11

From: Chris Sloan <csloan1973@xxxxxxxxx>
To: TN-Bird Listserv <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:16:41 -0500
Stormy weather is the best weather for finding interesting transients
at Old Hickory Lake, so I spent a few hours there this morning.  In
"classic" Old Hickory Lake fashion, I had one flock of five shorebirds
at Snow Bunting Peninsula (on the Davidson Co. side), but it was
comprised of three species: 2 Western Sandpipers, 2 Dunlin, and a
Least Sandpiper.  All five were first cycle birds; the Westerns and
Least were in first alternate and the Dunlin were in first basic,
although one was starting to molt in some alternate feathers.

Other highlights:

1 Red-breasted Merganser
a nice mixed flock of gulls and terns, including a good number of Caspian Terns
4 Warbling Vireos (FOS for me)
2 Western Palm Warblers (FOS for me)
1 Nashville Warbler (FOS for me)

Also in the yard (in Forest Hills area of Nashville), I had my first
Blue-winged and Hooded Warblers.  The Hooded was at the bottom of the
driveway in some marginally suitable breeding habitat so there's an
outside chance it was on territory.

Chris Sloan
Nashville, TN
http://www.chrissloanphotography.com




---------- Forwarded message ----------
Location:     Old Hickory Lake
Observation date:     4/16/11
Number of species:     67

Canada Goose     50
Mallard     10
Blue-winged Teal     11
Northern Shoveler     7
Lesser Scaup     4
Red-breasted Merganser     1
Common Loon     2
Pied-billed Grebe     5
Double-crested Cormorant     75
Great Blue Heron     50
Great Egret     2
Black-crowned Night-Heron     5
Black Vulture     10
Turkey Vulture     5
Bald Eagle     1
Cooper's Hawk     4
Red-tailed Hawk     2
American Coot     100
Killdeer     1
Spotted Sandpiper     2
Western Sandpiper     2
Least Sandpiper     1
Dunlin     2
Bonaparte's Gull     30
Ring-billed Gull     150
Herring Gull     2
Caspian Tern     13
Forster's Tern     2
Rock Pigeon     2
Mourning Dove     5
Chimney Swift     10
White-eyed Vireo     1
Warbling Vireo     4
Red-eyed Vireo     1
Blue Jay     1
American Crow     5
Northern Rough-winged Swallow     500
Purple Martin     25
Tree Swallow     200
Barn Swallow     400
Carolina Chickadee     5
Tufted Titmouse     5
Carolina Wren     8
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher     5
Eastern Bluebird     1
American Robin     75
Northern Mockingbird     10
European Starling     250
Nashville Warbler     1
Yellow-rumped Warbler     5
Yellow-throated Warbler     2
Pine Warbler     1
Palm Warbler     2     * palmarum (Western)
Common Yellowthroat     1
Eastern Towhee     3
Field Sparrow     10
Song Sparrow     5
White-throated Sparrow     30
White-crowned Sparrow     2
Northern Cardinal     15
Red-winged Blackbird     300
Eastern Meadowlark     3
Common Grackle     150
Brown-headed Cowbird     15
House Finch     10
American Goldfinch     5
House Sparrow     10

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