Re: Pied-billed Grebe Numbers
Wallace Coffey (jwcoffey@tricon.net)
Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:07:48 -0400
Kurt Gaskill wrote: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:13:05 EST
>According to the VOS blue book, 98 Pied-billed Grebes were recorded at Hunting
>Creek 25 Oct 1991. I believe the current 47 on the Potomac are in Maryland
>waters. Does anyone know the Maryland Potomac and state maximums for PBG?
Kurt:
To the best of my knowledge, the current Virginia maximum count for Pied-billed
Grebes is 147 birds seen 2 Feb 1997 at South Holston Lake (Rob Biller, Ron
Carrico, Wallace Coffey, Larry McDaniel, Geoff Larsen). This is right on
the Virginia-Tennessee line and the birds spent the late evening hours in
both Tennessee and Virginia and then moved to the Virginia waters to roost.
That's where we counted
them in Virginia. Dick Peake and Susan Powers reported 170 birds at the same
location 22 Feb 1997 but listed his birds as South Holston Lake Tennessee.
This
is also the location where both the Tennessee and Virginia high count for
Eared Grebes was made (21 birds 6 Oct 1996).
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN