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["Ben Yandell" <by@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Most interesting observations were least sandpiper, Ross's goose, peregrine
falcon, common merganser, and palm warbler.  Also seemed to find more adult
bald eagles than usual (several locations).

Fulton Co.
* least sandpiper - 16 along edge of pond along road to Hickman Ferry
* Am. pipit - 1 in same area
* geese - lots in the air, but few on ground at Long Point unit of Reelfoot;
almost no ducks there.  Did see Ross's (5 total??), snow (1,000s), gr.
white-fronted geese few hundred), along with n. pintail, n. shoveler,
gadwall, Am. wigeon, and mallards.
* Could not find any longspurs.

* Did not find the spotted towhee on Bethel Church Rd.  Am. tree and fox
sparrow in the area.

LBL
* gull numbers seemed low at Ky. and Barkley Dams.  Did not identify
anything beyond ring-billed, herring, and Bonaparte's.
* peregrine falcon standing on one of the sandbars above Barkley Dam
* both scaup, com. goldeneye, canvasback, horned grebes, Am. white pelican
on Barkley.  Waterfowl numbers seemed low.  They may have been hiding from
the hunters.
* 4 male and 2 female common mergansers at Honker Bay, along with hooded
mergansers and ring-necked ducks
* found no loons
* found dead hermit thrush on the main road (The Trace) through LBL

Peabody WMA
* Mary pished in a single palm warbler along S2, Sinclair Unit
* Ash basin at Paradise had a few killdeer and 15-20 pied-billed grebes and
not much else.
* Canada geese on lake at Homestead Unit seemed to be two different sizes,
but nothing small enough that we could call it a cackling.  Same lake had 6
gr. white-fronted geese and a pair of n. pintail.
* two short-eared owls, Homestead Unit

Ben & Mary Yandell
Louisville