[TN-Bird] Re: Mute Swans in Weakley Co.

All,

Sorry, I meant to indicate a location for Garrett Lake, in case anyone was
interested, as it isn't a well-known location. Garrett Lake is located
between Dresden and Paris, just north of Hwy 54. Take Newberry Store Rd
north off of Hwy 54, and follow the signs to Garrett Lake. This is on page
49 of the TN DeLorme Atlas.


Good birding!!

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



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <birder1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 8:26 PM
Subject: [TN-Bird] Mute Swans in Weakley Co.


> 12/31/04
> Garrett Lake
> Weakley Co.
>
> After a good tip from David Pitts that there were some Swans present
> (probably Mute's) on Garrett Lake in Weakley Co, I got a little time this
> afternoon to run over and check it out. When David was there yesterday
> morning most of the lake was still frozen over, and the birds were 
> distant.
>
> As I arrived, I saw a couple of Swans on lake, and sure enough they were
> Mute's. Initially I only saw 3 birds, but most of the lake was hidden from
> my vantage point. There are only two access points on Garrett Lake (a fair
> size lake, over mile and half north to south), but from the one on the 
> west
> side of the lake you can see most of the water. A quick trip around the 
> lake
> revealed a total of 8 Mute Swans present. Six were remaining together, and 
> 2
> more were feeding separately. The group of 6 consists of 2 adults and what 
> I
> think are 4, 1st-winter birds. Two of the birds are still dingy with 
> darkish
> bills, obviously this-years hatch. The other two are basically white, with
> fairly bright pink bills that lack the knob of the adults. The 2 separate
> birds were too far to be certain, but appeared to be adults. I had great
> looks at the group of 6 as they cruised by the launch area while 
> transiting
> the lake.
>
> A real treat was having one of the birds fly from one end of the lake to
> other. I was looking through the scope when I started hearing what almost
> sounded like a helicopter spooling up
> (whoomp.....whooomp......whooomp......whoooomp), I looked up to see one of
> the birds coming from the other end of the lake. The sound of those
> wingbeats was most impressive. This was my 1st time to see a Mute Swan in
> the air.
>
> I have only had one other Mute in the state that I was confident was wild,
> many years ago at Cross Creeks NWR. This was also during very bad winter
> weather. I've seen other Mute's that very well could have been wild birds. 
> I
> talked to a couple of people that fish Lake Garrett regularly, that said 
> the
> birds weren't there a couple of weeks ago. They seem to have come in with
> the bitter weather of late.
>
> I've posted a few shots of these birds on my site, if interested just 
> follow
> the link and click on "next" to go to the next photo, a total of 4 shots 
> are
> posted.
> http://www.pbase.com/mctodd/image/38107295
>
> Good birding!!
>
> Mike Todd
> McKenzie, TN
> Carroll Co.
> birder1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.pbase.com/mctodd
>
>
>
>
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