[Bristol-Birds] Boone Scoter

That subject line has a nice ring to it, don't you think?  I should have told 
Larry it was an immature, rather than a female, White-winged Scoter, I think. 
 I watched it from beside the observation building at the Boone overlook 
while it slept, head tucked, near the marina across the lake to the southwest.  
My 
fingers nearly froze off waiting for it to show its face!  I couldn't see 
white in the wings at first, but it finally showed both face and wing patterns. 
 
When I left, it was hanging (peripherally) with two Black Ducks and several 
Mallards near the shore.  Just before leaving, I was watching a gull as it flew 
across in front of a sundog, and into the blinding glare of the sun.  Just 
then, my cell phone rang.  It was Tom McNeil calling to tell me he had just 
seen 
the White-winged Scoter at Middlebrook Lake, and that there was a halo around 
the sun!  After tripping over each other finding the Sage Thrasher, then this, 
I'm beginning to think we were abducted by the same aliens.  Hey Tom, can you 
hear me now?  Oouuu-weee-ouuu, bubba!

Don Holt
Johnson City, TN
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