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Nature
Notebook SMN Birds: Following are a few of the better finds from last Saturday’s first annual Carolina Field Birders’ Christmas Bird Count. The center for the 15-mile radius count circle is at Pinnacle Road and Old Balsam Road. The circle includes a large portion of Haywood County and a small area of eastern Jackson County. The count tallied 69 species including; common yellowthroat, gray catbird, Lincoln’s sparrow, red-shouldered hawk, white-crowned sparrow, black-capped chickadee, red-breasted nuthatch, hermit thrush, winter wren, ruffed grouse, wild turkey, fox sparrow, field sparrow, brown creeper, golden-crowned kinglet and eastern phoebe. ° Eared grebe and osprey (Musick’s campground on South Holston Lake, Bristol, Tenn., Jan. 5, from Tennessee Birds listserv) ° Common goldeneye (Middlebrook Lake, Sullivan County, Jan. 5, from Tennessee Birds listserv) ° Tagged trumpeter swan (Hwy. 394, near Bristol Motor Speedway, Tenn., Jan. 5, from Tennessee listserv) ° Tundra swan (Fort Loudoun Lake, Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 5, from Tennessee listserv) ° Black-throated gray warbler (Mooresville, N.C - Lake Norman, Jan. 5, from Carolina Birds listserv, skytomm@1000plus.com for info) |