Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge - Tennessee - National Wildlife Refuges on Waymarking.com

Hatchie NWR includes 11,556 acres along the Scenic Hatchie River and is located about four miles south of Brownsville, Tennessee. The refuge was established in 1964, primarily to provide habitat (food, water and shelter) for migrating and wintering waterfowl

Hatchie NWR office is located at Oneal Lake on Hwy 76 immediately south of I-40's Exit 52. From Memphis, TN take I-40 east about one hour to Exit 52. Exit left or north onto Hwy 76, than go 1.5 miles to the Refuge Office on the right. From Nashville, TN take I-40 west to Exit 56. Exit left or south onto Hwy 76, go 3 miles to the Refuge Office on the left.

The bottomland forests and meandering sloughs provide breeding habitat for numerous wood ducks and hooded mergansers. Mallards, black ducks and other migratory waterfowl that brighten the gray winter skies, also are attracted to the refuge's extensive feeding areas and resting areas.
During the spring and summer the woods literally swarm with songbirds of every color. Scarlet tanagers, ruby-crowned kinglets, yellow warblers, goldfinches, green-backed herons, blue jays, redheaded woodpeckers and indigo buntings paint the woods with all of the colors of the rainbow. Bald eagles and ospreys are rare winter visitors, but red-shouldered hawks, barred owls and wild turkeys thrive in the area and can be seen year-round. Some of the more numerous resident mammals include white-tailed deer, beaver and squirrels. While river otters have disappeared from most parts of Tennessee, they still are found in good numbers at Hatchie. When seen, they delight visitors and refuge staff as well, with their playful antics.

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