[TN-Bird] Re: [Bristol-Birds] Canvasback @ Middlebrook Lake

  • From: <merlin42@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:04:30 -0800

Tennessee and Bristol Birders,

While the Canvasbacks and the flight of gulls was pretty cool, it wasn't cool 
that it was sent multiple times.  Only thing I know is I hit the send button 
ONE time.  Charter must have hiccuped.

Again, sorry for the extra messages.

--
Rob Biller
Elizabethton, TN

---- merlin42@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
> 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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