Birding in East Tennessee

Spent from 4pm to 5:45 walking the perimeter and the dry interior area of what I am still calling BMS Wetland today. 

First the particulars:

Weather : Cloud cover:  Partly Cloudy to Overcast ; Temperature: ~70F ; Wind: light to steady <10mph with small gusts out of the West. 

The site is roughly 5+ acres of wetland area in Johnson City, Tennessee.  The wetland is almost three quarters surrounded by a small hillside.  The rest of the area around the wetland is grassy fields.  The only vegetation I was able to discern was thick cattails and grass.  I don't think there is much more vegetation type, but I hope to get a few other people to help ID vegetation.

I heard Peepers.  Again, I hope to get more knowledgeable people to help with the herps. 

OK - This is a small wetland area, but I still decided to find different points to survey even though they overlap a little bit.  During this survey, I only had the media player in my cell phone which did not broadcast the sound as far as I would have liked, but it work (sort of). 

The Bird songs played at each point are Swamp Sparrow, Marsh Wren, Virginia Rail, Sora, and Sedge Wren

Point 1 -

Only Swamp Sparrow responded to its recording (1)

Point 2

Again only Swamp Sparrow (2) - one was the same from point 1 and one new one popped up out of the cattails.

Point 3

Here I added another Swamp Sparrow.

Point 4 

Here added two more Swamp Sparrows.

Other birds heard or seen during survey:

Northern Cardinal, Carolina Wren, Sons Sparrows, Eastern Phoebes(2), Eastern Bluebirds, Red-winged Blackbirds ++ (will be nesting), Carolina Chickadees, Turkey Vultures (~6 flyovers), and a Red-tailed Hawk flew out of the trees on the ridge partly surrounding the wetland.

I left around 5:45pm.

Not a bad day, but I need to survey this wetland at first light or at dusk.  If I only didn't have to work.  Maybe Sunday as Rain seems to be moving in for Friday and Saturday.