| Date: | Fri, 2 Feb 2001 18:36:43 -0500 |
| Reply-To: | Giff Beaton <giffbeaton@MINDSPRING.COM> |
| Sender: | Georgia Birders Online <GABO-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> |
| From: | Giff Beaton <giffbeaton@MINDSPRING.COM> |
| Subject: | Vermilion Flycatcher and Surf Scoter |
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GABbers: Tom Egan, Lex Glover and I did stop at Carter's Pond near Valdosta
this morning, and did not refind the flycatcher until Brad's group had
already left (thanks for the location tip, Brad). She was flying around the
first large group of cypress trees out in the pond along the berm you walk
down from GA 135. This is on the right side of the pond as you face it from
the road, and she would have been visible from the road also. Later, we
birded around the Lake Blackshear dam on the Worth/Lee County lines
(DeLorme p. 50 D2). To get to the dam, take a road called PowerDam Road
from GA 300 right at the town of Warwick, directly across GA 300 from GA
313. Follow this road 1.8 miles to the dam, and take the road down to the
spillway to the right. At the spillway was an Osprey, a pretty good bird
for winter, and lots of Ring-billed Gulls, Double-crested Cormorants and a
few Great Blue Herons and Great Egrets mixed in. Where PowerDam Road
reaches a fence at the powerplant, and before you take the small road down
the hill to the spillway, there is a small (less than 1 acre) pond off to
the left behind a house, and on it was a Surf Scoter! Looked to be an
immature male, but what it was doing there or how long it will stay is
anybody's guess.
Giff Beaton
Marietta GA
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