[TN-Bird] Yellow-crowned Night Heron at Cheatham

From: Rconnorsphoto@xxxxxxx
To: TN-Bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 21:29:14 EDT
Cheatham Lake WMA
Cheatham Co. TN
On a Sunday (8/1/04) outing to Cheatham County, mostly for butterflies, Sarah 
Scott and I checked the Dyson Ditch area and found one adult Yellow-crowned 
Night Heron. It was hunting in a wet, partly flooded corn field, and caught and 
ate a crayfish as we watched. We could clearly see it's red-orange eyes as it 
walked away with a lump in it's throat. There were also 3 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS 
along the flooded edge.

"Dyson Ditch" is on the north side, the Ashland City side of the lake. The 
similar area on the south side is known as Pardue Pond and when I checked my 
place names reference, Mike Bierly's book Bird Finding in Tennessee, I noticed 
his entry about Dyson Ditch included: "This is the best area for Yellow-Crowned 
Night Heron, summer, look wet areas..."

The Cheatham Co. butterflying was fair to good with 21 species for the day, 
the best of which was my 2nd Golden-banded Skipper in two weeks. The 
dragonflies were thick in the Dyson Ditch area but not enough time spent there 
do them 
(or the birds either) a proper survey with 6 of the  "usual suspects" 
identified.

Richard Connors
Nashville TN


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