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[Bristol-Birds] Waterfowl in Sullivan Co

From: david kirschke <dkirschke@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Bristol Birds <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 12:30:19 -0800 (PST)

I spent the morning (12/6/07) in the area of South Holston Lake and had a good 
number of waterfowl species, including:
   
  Musick's camp
  Lesser scaup (20-30)
  Redhead (10+)
  Bufflehead (25+)
  Red-breasted merganser (8+)
  Horned grebe (5+)
  Eared grebe (1+)
  Common loon (2)
  Pied-billed grebe 
  GBH
  Ring-billed gull (70+)
  Bonapart's gull (4)
  Am pipit (heard)
  Cooper's hawk
  Also, I had the nice suprise of seeing a doe swimming the length of the lake 
(south to north) at dawn.
   
  Weir Dam
  Bufflehead
  Ringed-neck duck (5-6)
  Am wigeon
  Green-winged teal (4)
  Mallard
  Hooded merganser (3)
  Gadwall
   
  Middlebrook Lake
  Hooded merganser (200+, maybe still close to 300)
  Common goldeneye (1 male)
  Ringed-neck duck (2)
  Am coot (2)
  R-b gulls
   
  David Kirschke
  Johnson City, TN