[TN-Bird] Re: Woods Reservoir - Red-throated Loon
- From: Scott Somershoe <ssomershoe@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 20:16:03 -0600
Incidentally I made a quick stop at Woods reservoir, Franklin co., late this
afternoon in what seemed like balmy 25-30 degrees. As Stephen noted, lots of
ice, but there were more birds than on Monday.
I found 5 white-winged scoters (snooze), 500+ hooded mergs and 500+ horned
grebe, 75+ common loons and an adult RED-THROATED LOON. There were easily 7000
gulls present, with 400-500 Bonaparte's and the rest ring-billed, most flying
low over the lake foraging. There were probably 1000 ducks on the south shore,
but hard to ID from the vantage points I had, but mallards dominated.
4 Sandhill cranes also flew over. Several hundred were just west of Winchester
yesterday evening as well.
Good birding!
Scott Somershoe
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 30, 2014, at 5:13 PM, Stczipperer@xxxxxxx wrote:
> January 30, 2014
> Traveling
> Woods Lake, Franklin Co., TN and Normandy Lake, Coffee/Bedford Co.
> Left work this morning on the search for Surf Scoters only Scoter I have not
> yet seen in TN.
> Arrived at Woods Reservoir to find it mostly frozen over. Buffle Heads, N.
> Shoveler, and N. Harrier best birds.
>
> Drove to Normandy Lake:
> While driving up to the Dam stopped at a pull off where I could see a lot of
> the lake. Found out large raft of Horned Grebes(60), along with Hooded
> Mergansers, Gadwalls, N. Shovelers, Buffleheads, and 3 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS(1
> male, 1 female, and 11st year) these birds were on the Coffee Co. part of
> the lake.
>
> Drove the rest of the way to the Dam parking lot and started scanning. On
> the Bedford Co. shoreline across from the Dam. I thought this whole lake was
> in Coffee Co. but the part of the shoreline I was observing is in Bedford Co.
> according to Google Earth. Birds present Buffleheads, Gadwalls, Horned
> Grebes, N. Shovelers, Hooded Mergansers, and 3 more White-winged Scoters, (1
> male, 1 female, and a 1st year bird). Now if I could only find a Surf Scoter.
> The search continues.
>
> Crazey morning,
>
> Good birding
>
> Stephen Zipperer
> Rutherford Co., TN
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