[TN-Bird] KY Lake loons

11/29/08
Henry Co
Jeff  came and made the rounds at KY Lake today. Among birds he had were the 
continuing Red-throated and Pacific Loons that have shown up in the last couple 
of weeks or so. Both were seen this morning from the Port Rd area. The 
Red-throated was off towards Pace Point, which sounds like the same area it was 
hanging around the other afternoon I had one there. The classic adult Pacific 
was actually among 100+ Common Loons at the mouth of the bay at Port Rd.

Jeff had 400+ loons in the area, and a possible mega-rarity in the mix. Looks 
were a little too distant to be sure, but he had a bird both from Port Rd, and 
late this afternoon with better looks from Rocky Point, of the potential 5th 
loon species for TN. Everything looked good on the bird, but at this time just 
not enough detail on the bird to be sure. Out of the thousand upon thousands of 
loons we've seen at KY Lake, neither Jeff nor I have had a loon that 
continually showed the white flank patch and white at the waterline, on both 
sides of the bird, as his did today. We've had birds that would show some form 
of this from time to time as they swam or preened, but not evenly on both 
sides. The bird was a little smaller than nearby Commons, very dark back and 
had the really white throat without pattern, shown by the Pacific/Arctic 
complex. Hopefully better looks will be had at this bird. In my trips the last 
few weeks, I haven't crossed paths with this bird, so it may be recently 
arrived, and hopefully it will stay for a while.

No sign of the Red-necked Grebe I had the other day, and the only good gull was 
a Lesser Black-backed. Three Cackling Geese were at Britton Ford.

I hope to get over tomorrow to look for the Arcticish Loon, and Jeff may stay 
over. 

Good Birding!!

Mike Todd
McKenzie, TN
birder1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.pbase.com/mctodd

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