FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Re: RPT: Red-necked grebe at Meldahl Dam

["Palmer-Ball, Brainard (EPPC OOS KNPC)" <Brainard.Palmer-Ball@xxxxxx>]

One small correction to Ben's post ... the Red-necked Grebe was UPSTREAM
from Meldahl dam.

bpb, Frankfort

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> [mailto:birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]  On Behalf Of Ben Yandell
> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 9:49 PM
> To:   Birdky
> Subject:      [birdky] RPT: Red-necked grebe at Meldahl Dam
> 
> December 1, 2007: Brainard Palmer-Ball, Mary, and I went to Meldahl
> and Markland Dams today.  Best find was the red-necked grebe that
> Brainard spotted a quarter- to half-mile below the dam at Meldahl,
> likely a first-winter bird, judging from Sibley.  Several pictures
> digiscoped.  Also at Meldahl:  peregrine falcon, 3 ruddy ducks, and
> many ring-billed gulls.  Adult and juvenile bald eagles in the area
> (near Foster). Markland Dam had a common loon and a horned grebe,
> ring-billed gulls plus 1 herring gull and a dozen or so Bonaparte's.
> Also found Matt Stickel's female/imm. black scoter above the Falls of
> the Ohio in Louisville at dusk.  An estimated 1,000 gulls came in to
> rest in the middle of the river, but it was too dark at that point to
> study them.
> 
> Ben Yandell