[TN-Bird] Re: The Brown Pelican location
- From: Ruben Stoll <birdchaserrws@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tennwren@xxxxxxxxxxx, tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 16:36:21 -0500
The brown pelican was still at the same location under the dam at 5:32 pm
Sunday afternoon. Chad Beachy Centerville TN
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Marcia Davis <tennwren@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>The brown pelican was still at this location at 2:40 this afternoon.
>It's repeatedly floating downstream a couple of hundred yards and then
>flying back up closer to the dam to float tail first downstream again
>while looking for fish.
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>Four spillways are open and dumping water and probably stunning fish.
>There is also a lot of heron, cormorant, black vulture, and osprey
>activity below the dam.
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>The black vultures had a great blue heron surrounded on the rocks. I
>wondered if they were trying to intimidate it into barfing up a fish. Or
>maybe the heron was holding a fish too large to swallow whole. Anyone
>ever seen this vulture behavior?
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>Marcia Davis
>Knoxville, TN
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>On 5/26/13 1:39 PM, Steve Clendenen wrote:
>> A minor correction to the Brown Pelican location. It is below Ft.
>> Loudoun Dam, not above it. It was very easy to see from the parking lot
>> that is on the Lenoir City side. That is in Loudon County.
>> Steve & Gail Clendenen
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