[TN-Bird] Percy Priest Lake loons, etc.

From: "Scott Somershoe" <Scott.Somershoe@xxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:12:43 -0600
I started the long weekend with a stop at the Percy Priest Dam and Cooks rec 
area, taking in some fresh air and birds in the last 2 hrs of daylight.  
Diversity wasn't great, but the numbers were.

Gulls have finally returned. I had about 9 gulls total in 7 hours with 4 stops 
last week.  Today I had a nice flock of 24 Bonaparte's flying away from 
Nashville Shores and a group of ~800 ring-billed gulls roosting at the same 
location from last year off Cook.  

I also set 4 personal high counts for Percy Priest today with these stops (and 
one 2nd highest count):
Common Loon - 301 (in a second count I had 291, so nice replication of the 
count.  My previous high was 178 last week! This count is from Cook area only)
Bufflehead - 78 (2nd highest count, Cook and the dam area)
Horned Grebe - 96 (2x prev. high, Cook and the dam area)
Hooded Merganser  - 35 (I rarely see them on the lake proper, Cook area only)
American Coot - 1150 (4x prev. high, Cook area only)

Great birding!
Scott Somershoe


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