[EMAS] WNC lakes: early Least Sands, cont. RN Grebes, Loons, etc. - 3/20/14
- From: Steve Ritt <stevenmritt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: emas <emas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:59:44 -0700
Happy to spend my first day of spring in WNC, I quickly checked may of the
local lakes today. With some birds lingering, some arriving, and some just
passing through, the following were of interest to me:
Beaver Lake:
Canvasback - 2
Bufflehead - 3
Pine Warbler - 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 15
Eastern Phoebe - 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 12
Swamp Sparow - 2 (thanks Doug Johnston)
White-throated Sparrow - 3
Fish Crow - 1
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Brown-headed Nuthatch - 2
Common Grackle - 2
Lake Junaluska: (water levels are still down)
Least Sandpiper - 4 (I believe this is quite early for the mountains, but
I'm not sure of the earliest date.)
Greater Yellowlegs - 1
Killdeer - 14
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 (my eastern FOS)
Bonaparte's Gull - 1 adult
Blue-winged Teal - 8
Green-winged Teal - 8
Northern Shoveler - 2
Bufllehead - 10
Ring-necked Duck - 5
Ruddy Duck - 30
Enka Lake:
Lesser Scaup - 6
Ring-necked Duck - 4
Ruddy Duck - 40
Brown-headed Nuthatch - 4
Common Grackle - 1
Winter Wren - 1
Lake Julian Park:
Red-necked Grebe - 4 continue
Eared Grebe - 2
Common Loon - 2 in alternate plumage
Double-crested Cormorant - 25-ish seemed high (mostly migrants)
White-throated Sparrow - 2
Steve Ritt
Asheville, NC / San Diego, CA
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