Army Ammunition Plant Holston River Kingsport, TN Hawkins County The Double-crested Cormorant nests at this site have increased this year to 50, according to a biologist with the plant. Bruce Cole reports that in 2004, the count was 45 nests. They were in a Great Blue Heron nesting colony on Clay Island, river Mile Point 138-139 (36.5254°N, 82.6527°W). The colony was abandoned and birds scattered in 2005 when a pair of Bald Eagles built a nest in the tallest tree on the island at one end of the colony. This year the cormorants have regrouped with other Great Blue Herons at a nesting site along the river shoreline on the plant side of the river about one half mile upstream from the previous Clay Island colony site. This site is within the fenced security of the plant. Last year's distrubance may have been responsible for expansion of the nesting of this species into nearby Sullivan County at Kingsport (Rick Knight, TN-Birds Net, Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:31:14 -0500). On 30 Mar 2006 he found a cormorant sitting on a nest along the S. Fork Holston River (just downstream from Netherland Inn). "The Kingsport nest is undoubtedly an expansion from that rookery," Knight wrote of the downstream Clay Island nesting location on the Holston River. Let's go birding..... Wallace Coffey Bristol, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________