Pace Point,
Britton Ford, Paris Landing State Park
Henry
County, Tennessee2012 December 8
Fourteen
birders, including some from Kentucky, joined forces on the Saturday NTOS field trip with leader
Mike Todd to search the Kentucky Lake
area for birds. The air temperature was warm, and the lake level was as low as I have
ever seen it. In most places it looked like the tide was out. While the
rain held off, the extremely cloudy
skies resulted in very low light levels, and fog descended at our last stop.
There was little wind and the lake surface looked like glass. There were only
small numbers of diving ducks and no
geese besides CANADA were found. However, we did find several species of
particular interest, the best of which
was a RED-NECKED GREBE, seen from Pace Point. Duck highlights include plenty of
COMMON GOLDENEYEs, GREATER SCAUP, HOODED and RED-BREASTED MERGANSERs. In
addition to a number of COMMON LOONs, a
probable RED-THROATED LOON was seen, but was too far away for a firm
identification. At least a dozen BALD EAGLEs and several groups of AMERICAN
WHITE PELICANs were spotted. We had a total of 44 species. We thank Mike Todd
for leading the group.
Frank Fekel
NTOS Field
Trip Coordinator