FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Ross's Goose feeding area found

[Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bristol Area Birders:

Today (11/21)  Bert Hale discovered the Middlebrook
Lake Ross's Goose grazing in a field 4.6 miles
southwest of the impoundment.  This is the first time=20
the bird has been located feeding away from the
shoreline of the lake.

I joined him there about 9:30 a.m. to help
check and see if it appears to be the bird which has
been at Middlebrook -- a Ross's X Lesser Snow Goose
hybrid.  It has what appears to be the typical bill of a
Ross's and the influnece of a Snow Goose's grining patch.

The bird was feeding in the vicinity of the Luthern Church
located on Weaver Pike at the intersections of Bullock's
Hollow Road and Grandor Road.

If you have a GPS unit you can locate it at the following
coordinates:  36=B0 31' 56"N, 82=B0 10' 17"W

You may click on the following URL to see the exact
location on a topo map of Bristol and, if you wish, in
the upper left hand corner of the map go to 1:25,000
for a more detailed view:=20

http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=3D17&n=3D4043477&e=3D395102&s=3D200&u=3D2

Let's go birding......

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN

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