FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Late Common Loon at Hidden Valley Lake

["Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A Common Loon in mostly basic plummage was observed today (5/23) on Hidden 
Valley Lake near the top of Brumley Mountain west of Abingdon in Washington 
Co., Va.  
This bird is within a couple of days of the last average date for the species 
to linger in Virginia before heading north.  It was found by Ron Harrington and 
Wallace Coffey. 

It is possibly later than the latest published spring date for Southwest 
Virginia.  If anyone knows of anything later, please let us know.

It is possible to see a Common Loon every month of the year on Tennessee Valley 
Authority mountain lakes in Northeast Tennessee.  It is usually gone from the 
region by late April to the end of May.  We have about a dozen summer records 
of Common Loons in Northeast Tennessee.

Let's go birding.....

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN


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