FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Canvasback @ Middlebrook Lake

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Hello area and TN Birders,

I took an extended lunch today to go to Middlebrook lake to look for the 
Long-tailed Duck that was reported yesterday by Rack Cross et al..  While I 
didn't find the Duck with the Long Tail, I did find two, male Canvasback Ducks 
mixing in with the Hooded Mergansers (not very well, I might add).  There was 
the normal compliment of other birds - Canada Geese (some very interesing 
hybrid geese were mixed in), Mallards, Coots, and Herons(3).  I noticed a few 
Vultures (3-4) but the roost must have been out to lunch.  I hung around long 
enough to see Tom and JT McNeil come driving in just as a HUGE group of gulls 
were flying back in.  I felt like I was at a hawk watch on a big day as they 
just kept appearing out of nowhere flying in from the north in a steady stream. 
 I had been looking at the Canvasback when I heard the wind off their wings at 
such a volume I had to look up.   Middlebrook lake is located in eastern 
Sullivan County in Bristol, TN

Nice lunch break.
--
Rob Biller
Elizabethton, TN
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