[TN-Bird] Couchville Lake
- From: Skip Taylor <bltaylor444@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 16:21:16 -0600
Janet and I spent a few hours at Couchville Lake in Longhunter State
Park just east of Nashville Saturday while the weather provided a more
comfortable window. Beautiful afternoon. We observed through our
scope appx. 60 Hooded Mergansers for quite some time at fairly close range
while they were playing, taking baths, hoods up and down, lots of different
angles. It was a great show. They are indeed beautiful. Also present on
the lake or in the area were:
2 Red breasted mergansers
1 Pied-billed Grebe
3 Mallards
6 Great Blue Herons
10+ Ring-billed Gulls
3 Bonaparte's Gulls
60+ Black Vultures
30+ Crows
Seemed to be a complete absence of other birds although we were focused on
the lake. I don't even remember seeing any Chickadees or Titmice.
Bertrand Taylor
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