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
