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[OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx]

Jan. 9, 2005
Ensley Bottoms
Robco Lake
Shelby Co. TN.
Wapanocca Area
Crittenden Co. AR
 
 
A single Surf Scoter was found among the huge flock of Lesser and Greater  
Scaup at TVA Lake. After the Mississippi River fell 13 feet over 18 days it has 
 
turned its head and will claim all that back and more in less than a week.  
Because of this, more gulls are using the lake and backwater areas but only  
Ring-billed, Herring and Bonaparte's could be found.
 
At the "Pits" water covers most flats and the back areas are a quagmire, I  
was only able to find Least Sandpipers and Killdeer shorebird wise plus Pipits, 
 Laps, Horned Larks and Brewer's Blackbirds.
 
At Robco Lake, I found a single Black Scoter in an crowd of Scaup,  
Canvasback, Bufflehead, Gadwall, Mallard, No. Shoveler, Green-winged Teal,  
Hooded 
Mergs and Ruddy Ducks. The single Forster's Tern is still present after  the 
ice 
and snow and might make it through the winter, unusual in  Memphis.
 
I went up around Wapanocca NWR and found ducks and geese spread all around  
with 13 Vesper Sparrows, 16 Western Meadowlarks in 2 groups, 49 No. Flickers  
feeding on the ground in one spot at the observation deck and many more  
scattered about (the recent rains have the ants busy remodeling their mounds 
and  
the flickers are taking advantage).
 
On Bob White Road and the road behind the refuge, I found 2 different adult  
Krider's Red-tailed Hawks. This is the first year I can recall where adults 
out  number the immature.  In fact, over the weekend, I found 7 adult  Krider's 
and no immature birds. 
 
I also ran up I-55, to just south of Blytheville, where a few weeks back, I  
sped past a hawk that I believe was a Ferruginous Hawk, low and back  off the 
highway, I was in the passing lane and could not get turned around.  I got off 
and looked for the bird then but the area did not have good access.  After 
finding the Ferruginous in Mississippi, I thought I'd give it a try.  No bird 
found but anyone traveling I-55 might keep a look out for a light morph,  
immature Ferruginous Hawk in that area. You never know.............
 
Good  Birding!!!
Jeff R. Wilson
OL'COOT / TLBA
Bartlett,  TN


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