[va-bird] Re: Lake Shenandoah Waterfowl, March 28th
- From: "WILLIAM and THERESE Leigh" <leightern@xxxxxxx>
- To: JMIrvine@xxxxxxx, shenvalbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, VA-BIRD@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:47:58 +0000
Anybody see the Eared Grebe today at Lake Shen?
William Leigh
Bridgewater VA
leightern@xxxxxxx>From: JMIrvine@xxxxxxx >Reply-To: JMIrvine@xxxxxxx >To:
shenvalbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, VA-BIRD@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [va-bird] Lake
Shenandoah Waterfowl, March 28th >Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:33:52 EST
Alerted by a phone call from Charles Ziegenfus, who took his James Madison
University ornithology class to Lake Shenandoah this morning, Tom Pendleton
and >I checked the water birds there at 1:15 this afternoon, with the
following >results: >>Common Loon 2 (in full alternate plumage) >Pied-billed
Grebe 1 >Horned Grebe 6 (in varying stages of molt changeover to alternate
plumage) >EARED GREBE 1 >Great Blue Heron 1 >>Canada Goose 2 >Mallard 1
Ring-necked Duck 6 (3 m., 3 f.) >Lesser Scaup 6 >LONG-TAILED DUCK 8 (4 m.,
4f.) >>Bufflehead 4 (2 m., 2 f.) >Ruddy Duck 2 f. >American Coot 6 >Hooded
Merganser 1 f. >Tree Swallow 20+ >>An exceptionally good day at Lake
Shenandoah! In Clair Mellinger's Birds of >Rockingham County, Virginia
(1998)only two records for Eared Grebe are >listed, one at Lake Shenandoah,
27 April 1981, and another on a pond near Tenth >Legion, 25 October 1984.
This bird, which had a thin upturned bill that >generally appeared entirely
dark, was hanging out with 5 Horned Grebes, each of >whose stouter bills
sported a white tip. The orangish "ear plumes" were fully >developed but the
bird still had the white spot on the lower back side of the >face. It also
appeared to be a trifle smaller and more slender than the >Horned Grebes. It
spent a good bit of time snoozing with its bill tucked in its >back
feathers,and as it did, its white breast and belly were evident. >Ziegenfus,
who found the 1981 bird, had identified this one during the morning. >>The
Long-tailed Ducks, with the exception of one female, were all still in
basicplumage. They could be heard yodeling on occasion. They are uncommon
here, but not as rare as the Eared Grebe. >>John Irvine >Harrisonburg, VA
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