[bcbirdclub] Re: 1st Red-necked Grebe in Buchanan County
- From: Daniel Kendrick <kendridge@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "rmayhorn@xxxxxxxxxx" <rmayhorn@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 16:38:58 -0700
Very nice Roger. That's as close to a perched grebe as you 'll ever find !
Dan
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> On Mar 5, 2014, at 3:43 PM, "Roger Mayhorn" <rmayhorn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yesterday I received a call from a fellow who lives near Grundy at the Bend
> of Slate Creek. He had what he thought was a loon sitting in the snow in his
> yard, and it wouldn't move, except to peck at the fellow's small dog that
> went near it and barked. This fellow thought the bird might be injured, and I
> explained to him that it may not be injured, that loons and some other water
> birds have difficulty moving around on land, especially in 3 or 4 inches of
> snow. Since this guy lived right beside the creek he decided to put the bird
> in the creek to see what it did. When he did that the bird immediately went
> under and came up some distance upstream. He said it seemed perfectly healthy
> and was moving around very quickly. He watched it swim away.
>
> Before he released it I asked him to take a photo for me. This is the photo
> of a Red-necked Grebe, a species that doesn't normally nest in the U.S. but
> in Western Canada and Alaska. Some do spend the winter along the northern
> U.S. coasts, but are not commonly found inland.
>
> This is the first record, to my knowlege, of the species having been found in
> Buchanan county. In 2003 several of us birders got to see 3 Red-necked Grebes
> that were found on the Counts Pond in Russell County. I checked my records
> and Lynda and I saw those grebes on March 11, 2003, but they had been found a
> few days earlier by Bob Riggs, if memory serves me.
>
> Roger Mayhorn
> Compton Mt
>
>
> <2014_3_4 Red-necked Grebe_r.jpg>
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