08 December 2008

Pick Your Color Sunday Birding or an influx of Red-breasted Mergansers.

Pick Your Color Sunday Birding or an influx of Red-breasted Mergansers.

Nov 30, 2008
Cloudy - lower 40's

Rasar Farm (Carter County)

Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
American Pipits about 50
(with Don Carrier)

Little Wilbur (Carter County)

Buffleheads +++ (a plenty)
Red-breasted Merganser 6
Ring-necked Ducks 8
Gadwall 8

Middlebrook Lake (Sullivan County)

Red-breasted Merganser 16
Hooded Merganser - only 21
Pied-billed Grebe 2
American Coot 26+
Great Blue Heron 1
Ring-billed Gull 2
Mallards

South Holston Dam (Sullivan County)

Ring-billed Gull 5
Common Loon - about 65

(another large group of waterbirds beyond the loons of over 100 birds
that had the appearance of loons but can't say for sure...just too
far.)

Pied-billed Grebe 1

Weir Dam Area (Sullivan County)

Bufflehead - between 130 and 150
Mallards
Red-tailed Hawk


Musick's Campground - South Holston Lake - Sullivan County, TN and
Washington County, VA

(3-4pm)

Common Loon 11
Red-breasted Merganser 86
Horned Grebe 1
Pied-billed Grebe 13
Lesser Scaup 2
Ruddy Duck 4
Great Blue Heron 2

Washington County Park, Washington County, VA (4-4:30)

Eared Grebe 1
Red-breasted Merganser 101 (86 flushed from Musick's)
Pied-billed Grebe 6
Common Loon 17
Great Blue Heron 1
Black Duck 1

Rob Biller
Elizabethton, TN

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