[TN-Bird] Kingston Steam Plant - Red-Necked Phalaropes still there 8/28

Went to Kingston Steam Plant in Roane County, Tennessee late yesterday 
afternoon (8/28) to look for the Red-Necked Phalaropes reported and 
photographed so beautifully by Bob Howdeshell the previous afternoon.  At 
around 5:30 pm there were none to be found on the upper pond where Bob saw them 
(the lower upper pond) so I walked past it and scanned the back part of the 
closest, largest lower pond that has now become a large wet ash flat.  A group 
of resting Caspian Terns stood out and with them the much smaller 3 Red-Necked 
Phalaropes.  The Caspian Terns came and went, the largest number seen together 
was 7.  The Phalaropes also came and went and their numbers fluctuated between 
1 and 3 though I always was looking elsewhere when they moved.  Like the 
Caspians they were just sitting around when not leaving or returning.  
 
As I started to leave about an hour later, retracing my steps beside the lower 
upper pond I spotted two Red-Necked Phalaropes swimming on it.  I looked back 
to the tern group down below to confirm that 3 phalaropes remained hanging out 
with the terns.  So there were at least 5 Red-Necked Phalaropes at Kingston 
yesterday.  
 
The two on the upper pond stayed quite a while.  They were much closer than the 
other 3 and didn't flush when approached fairly closely.  They were actively 
swimming and bobbing around but I did't observe any spinning.  By this time I 
had been joined by Patty Ford and her friend Stan and we all got great looks at 
the Phalaropes.  They were still there when I left at 7:15 pm.
 
Thanks to Bob for posting this.  They were lifers for me.
 
Carole Gobert, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennesseee
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