[TN-Bird] Re: Long-tailed Duck in Alcoa & Horned Grebes in w. Knox
- From: Sharon Monett <sbm4him@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 19:18:48 -0500
I was the one on the near bank taking photos of the duck. After already
getting what I thought were some okay shots, I decided to move to a spot
I'd seen the duck return to several times. After waiting a while, she began
swimming closer and closer with each pass, eventually swimming as close as
15-20 feet away from me.
I've only processed two so far, but will get some more uploaded tonight or
sometime this weekend. You can see them on my flickr page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24369838@N07/.
The only other time I saw a long-tailed was at the Chickamauga Dam
recently, but I really didn't even KNOW I'd seen it til I got home and
started processing pictures, because it'd been so far away (I have a quite
decent wildlife lens and DSLR, but no binoculars or scope). So this was
kind of a lifer for me--at least it was the first time I could actually
TELL what I was seeing!
I also looked for the Pipits someone had mentioned, but didn't see any, but
it was nearly sunset by that time. About 5:30, all the ducks took off in
one mass move, and I saw a hawk fly over the pond into some nearby trees. I
believe it was a red-shouldered but didn't get a great picture of it. It
didn't seem to disturb the long-tailed in the least.
Sharon Monett
Knoxville, TN
sbm4him@xxxxxxxxx
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Angela Hoffman <ahoffman07@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> After the reports of the Long-tailed Duck in Blount County yesterday, I
> headed down there on my snow day to try for it. Thanks to Carole Gobert, I
> found the duck pond between the elementary and high schools easily, as I
> did the female LTDU. She was diving near some reeds on the side nearest the
> elementary school during the 15 minutes I was there, and I got excellent
> looks through my scope. Another person was also on the near bank taking
> photos of the duck while I was there.
>
> On the way back, I checked out various locations in western Knox County
> along Northshore Drive and the Concord area. At the Cove at Concord, I
> found two Horned Grebes, about 200 Ring-billed Gulls, and at least seven
> Great-blue Herons on nest in the rookery across the street. I checked many
> stops along the way to and from that location, but I never found anything
> other than Ring-billed Gulls and other regulars.
>
> Good birding,
>
> Angela Hoffman
>
> Angela M. Hoffman
> Knoxville, TN
> ahoffman07@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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