[Bristol-Birds] Great White Heron still on Watauga R. June 27
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:14:02 -0400
The Great White Heron (white morph of the Great Blue Heron),
first found 7 June 2008 during the Elizabethton Summer Bird Count,
has continued to frequent the Watauga River area for nearly a month.
Adam Campbell told me he observed the bird just downstream
from the "river bend" near Grindstone auto dealership at
Elizabethton, TN, Carter Co., June 20, 2008, and was able
to get this photo a week later on June 27. His friend, Amber
Nave, saw the bird on the day it was photographed.
The two yellow squares in this photo indicate the locations at which
Adam has seen and photographed the heron. The upper square is
near shoals at an island and the lower square is at a small island
or sandbar at the tip of the bend.
Don Holt, Diane Draper and Larry McDaniel originally discovered
the bird along the river. According to Rick Knight, this is the 6th
record for this morph in Northeast Tennessee.
Let's go birding. . . .
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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