FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Pelicans, etc at South Holston Lake

["Rick Knight" <RKnight@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

8 Apr
Musick's Campground
S. Holston Lake, Sullivan Co.

Wallace Coffey has already mentioned the 4 
Am. White Pelicans that we observed today.

also present:
Blue-wg. Teal - 20
Bufflehead - 2
Red-br. Merganser - 48
Com. Loon - 26  (breeding plumage)
Pied-billed Grebe - 12
Horned Grebe - 2 (1 in breeding plumage)
Dbl-cr. Cormorant - 17
Bald Eagle - 1 im.
Am. Coot - 10
Bonaparte's Gull - 220 (most in breeding plumage)
Ring-billed Gull - 120

We watched the eagle make repeated swoops
 at the small flock of coots, which would 
panic-dive as it neared.  The eagle seemed to 
ignore a slightly larger flock of mergansers just 
a few yards from the coots.  Maybe coots taste 
better or, more likely, are easier to catch.

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Rick Knight
Johnson City, TN
rknight@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

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