Colony Name: Mouth Muddy Creek - Boone Lake
Colony Code: Sullivan-6
County: Sullivan

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    Physiographic Province: PIF 13 (Southern Ridge and Valley); BCR 28 (Appalachian Mountains)
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History.
    Boone Lake. This is the first known heronry of Great Blue Herons found on Boone Lake (Wallace Coffey). 2007. May 29, Boone Lake, a breeding colony of Great Blue Herons, south of the mouth of Muddy Creek, off the tip of Wagner Bend, near TVA Point 9, between South Fork Holston River mile point 25 and 26, which is downstream of DeVault Bridge (5 nests, each having 2-3 young nearly ready to fledge). There was much wing flapping by the young birds. Most nests were on an island, but one of the nests was on the shoreline high up a ridge above the lake in a dead tree. Neighbor in the area said not first year nested. He remembers the nests in the spring of 2006 and maybe before. In addition, there was a Double-crested Cormorant perched near the Great Blue Heron nests, but no cormorant nest was found (Wallace Coffey). Contact is Wallace Coffey, jwcoffey@tricon.net.

2008 Breeding Surveys

Date	Species	Reproductive Stage	Survey Type (Nests)	Survey Type (Adults)	Total Number Adults	Total Number Nests	Number Active Nests	Number Young Seen	Estimated Breeding Pairs
April 16	Great Blue Heron	--	Actual Count	Actual Count	--	--	3	--	3

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