[TN-Bird] Kentucky Lake - Red-necked Grebe, White-rumped Sandpiper

From: "Scott Somershoe" <Scott.Somershoe@xxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:32:14 -0500
This morning I was actually on my way to do something other than birding for 
the entire day and decided to bail out and go birding all day.  I swung through 
Paris Landing SP (Henry Co) through Pace Point.

Rocky Point on Big Sandy Unit, TN NWR
Red-necked Grebe - 1, swam by fairly close to shore with Horned and Pied-blled 
Grebes
Bufflehead - 4, off Pace Point

Eagle Creek embayment 
Dunlin - 9
White-rumped Sandpiper - 1.  I watched this bird off and on for 45 min.  
According to my records, this is the latest record in Tennessee.  No photos, 
but I got quite a nice study of this bird.
Forster's Terns  - 14

General notes:
Horned Grebes were abundant (75-150+ individuals) in most places I visited 
(500+ seen today)
Pied-billed Grebes equally as abundant (500+ seen today)
Am. Coots - probably >6000 seen
Common Loon fairly abundant, about 100 seen from Rocky Point

Hundreds of Am. Wigeon, Mallards, Gadwall, Ruddy Ducks, and a couple 
Ring-necked Ducks and N Pintail were around Pace Point.  Good numbers of ducks 
at Britton Ford, but all were at the limit of my spotting scope (many were 
ruddy ducks). 

Ring-billed Gulls in surprisingly small numbers with Bonaparte's Gulls in even 
smaller numbers (5 total on the day).

White Pelicans (25) only seen in Lick Creek and a few later in Eagle Creek.  

Good birding,
Scott Somershoe












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[TN-Bird] Kentucky Lake - Red-necked Grebe, White-rumped Sandpiper

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