[TN-Bird] leucistic plumage coot

Dale Swant called about 8AM this morning to report a leucistic plumage American 
Coot at the Franklin Co. Rec area, Wood's Reservloir. I am recovering from 
lumbar surgery--minor and successful -and Dale and Jeannie know what buttons to 
push to get me out of the house and MOVING!
The bird was in a raft of about 500 regular coots, and my son's brother- in-law 
(he lives nearby and saw my car) and I got good looks through the scope. The 
other coots didn't seem to pay it any special attention, but we both noted that 
it seemed to be diving about three times as often as the others.

The only other sightings of winter waterfowl were 10 or 15  COMMON LOONS and a 
smattering of PIED-BILLED GREBES plus a thousand more coots.

Ruth Luckado
Tullahoma, Tn
Highland Rim Chpt--TOS

P.S.  I have a new laptop with that "finger touch cursor mover"--You, I'm sure, 
are glad that I have deleted all the "curse" words I used while typing this for 
the fourth time.
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