[EMAS] Re: 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 21:11:37 -0400
Ehh, sorry y'all. Of course, I meant Horned, not Eared, Grebes at Julian. It
takes a minute for me to remember which coast I'm on.
Steve Ritt
Asheville, NC / San Diego, CA
Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 20, 2014, at 6:59 PM, Steve Ritt <stevenmritt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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