[TN-Bird] Clarke's and Western Grebes - TN/MS

From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
To: missbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:45:32 EST
Nov. 22, 2009
Arkabutla Lake, MS
 
The best way to get a Clarke's Grebe ID right in your head (as the one  I 
found yesterday at Reelfoot Lake in northwest TN) is to find a Western  Grebe 
the next day. I got lucky again and found a classic Western Grebe just 20  
miles south of Memphis at Arkabutla Dam in MS today. 
 
All the field marks observed today, reaffirmed my ID of yesterday's rarity  
at Reelfoot. I think this is the first Western Grebe record for Arkabutla 
Lake  and one of just a few for MS. Q. B. Gray was able to make it in time  
to watch the bird with me. Fortunately being able to shoot today, from the  
top of the dam, (elevation keeps you from shooting directly through  the heat 
waves) I was able to get diagnostic photos even though the  bird was half 
way across the lake.
 
Poor photos of both birds starting at: 
_http://www.pbase.com/update_image/119630185_ 
(http://www.pbase.com/update_image/119630185) 
 
 
Good Birding  !!!
Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135
http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/
What is this feathered thing that  lifts my heart to the heavens.


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