[TN-Bird] Pickwick Picken's - 6 sp.Gulls + 2 Eared Grebes

  • From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
  • To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:55:26 EDT

Oct. 24, 2009
Pickwick Dam
Harden Co. TN
 
Not a lot of birds but super selection with another pair of immature Eared  
Grebes. Through the years of finding Eared Grebes in West TN, I've never 
seen  more than one at a time over here; now two pair in one week.
Two Common Loons, 31 Pied-billed Grebes, lots of Coots, 1 Ruddy Duck, 5  
Pintails and a few Mallards were all I could find scanning all  day...........
 
There were 2 Caspian Terns, an adult that continually fed an immature, and  
a single Forster's Tern on the lake side of the dam. There were only about 
250  gulls seen today with 95% of those on the locks and moorings above the 
dam but  two fine birds greeted me this morning feeding below the dam, a 
single 1st  winter LAUGHING GULL and an adult THAYER'S GULL. I've seen very few 
(or at  least picked few out) adults in years of searching in TN.
 
Two more immature THAYER'S were photographed in the afternoon above the  
dam; one with very pale primaries and the other a standard issue. Six  
FRANKLIN'S GULLS were seen together in the afternoon but singles and doubles  
appeared off and on all day. Four LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS, 2 adults, a  
strange/huge 3rd cycle bird and a 1st winter bird all seen above the dam with 3 
 in 
view at one time. Lots of adults and immature Herring and Ring-billed and I 
 waited till dusk wishing for a Bony but no gull species number 7;o(
 
Pretty good line up for early in the season.  
Good Birding  !!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135
http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/
What is this feathered thing that  lifts my heart to the heavens.



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