[TN-Bird] Douglas Lake, Jefferson County; Hordes of Grebes

From: shaawitya@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: tn-bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 02:53:24 +0000 (UTC)
Hi all, below is an ebird checklist from this afternoon at Douglas Lake in 
Jefferson County, TN. Good spot for waterfowl when they are around, but today 
the astonishing sight was at least 190 Horned Grebes and 125 Pied-billed 
Grebes. There are links to the photos and one video of this spectacle. I did 
some some darker grebes that could have been Eared but I think these birds were 
just molting Horned Grebes. Light was pretty poor. 

Keith Watson 
Pittman Center, TN 

----- Original Message -----

From: ebird-checklist@xxxxxxxxxxx 
To: shaawitya@xxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 9:44:58 PM 
Subject: eBird Report - Lake View Grill, Mar 3, 2015 

Lake View Grill, Jefferson, US-TN 
Mar 3, 2015 1:20 PM - 1:50 PM 
Protocol: Stationary 
16 species (+1 other taxa) 

Canada Goose 8 
Gadwall 4 
Mallard 2 
Northern Pintail 11 
Redhead 22 
Ring-necked Duck 3 
Lesser Scaup 6 
Greater/Lesser Scaup 7 
White-winged Scoter 5 Clearly seen large black ducks, white wing patches on all 
light spot behind eye, funny shape bill. 
Common Goldeneye 15 
R ed-breasted Merganser 18 
Common Loon 2 
Pied-billed Grebe 125 Large number of Pied-billed Grebes at this location 
mixing mostly with Horned Grebes, but scattered all of the lake with numerous 
diving and dabbling ducks 
Horned Grebe 190 Incredible number of Horned Grebes at this location, mostly 
mixing with Pied-billed Grebes. One has to see this to believe. Video and photo 
links attached. Three photos provided are of different groups of grebes. 

<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/129563734@N05/16086847674"; 
title="Img_4804a by Keith Watson, on Flickr"><img 
src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8674/16086847674_bc95d43870.jpg"; 
alt="Img_4804a" /></a> 

<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/129563734@N05/16521589938"; 
title="Img_4802a by Keith Watson, on Flickr"><img 
src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8669/16521589938_8ea01e72b2.jpg"; 
alt="Img_4802a" /></a> 

<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/129563734@N05/16521776490"; 
title="Img_4800a by Keith Watson, on Flickr"><img 
src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8644/16521776490_c55cf05759.jpg"; 
alt="Img_4800a" /></a> 

https://flic.kr/p/rswSfi 

Ring-billed Gull 31 
Belted Kingfisher 1 
House Finch 1 

View this checklist online at 
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S22163051 

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
[TN-Bird] Douglas Lake, Jefferson County; Hordes of Grebes

Other related posts:
