FreeLists / tn-bird / [tn-bird] Saturday in SW-TN.& Tunica Co. MS

[OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx]

Chatters,

It is always nice to know where our visitors come from; I recently received 
the following on three neck banded Snow Geese that I had found here along the 
Mississippi. Searching the coordinates I found two of the birds (one Snow and 
One Blue) were banded above the Arctic Circle in the Canadian Province of 
Nunavut. They caught in Foxe Basin near Prince Charles Island some 2500 miles 
to our north. Another Snow was banded just a few miles from Churchill in 
Manitoba approximately 1500 miles to the north.

On Saturday (March 2), I birdied southwest TN and north Mississippi. I 
searched for a Red-necked Grebe reported from the north end of Horn Lake 
(Lakeview) in Mississippi just at the Tennessee line, without luck. I did 
spent a great deal of time scanning and photographing a huge flock of mixed 
scaup on TVA Lake in Ensley Bottoms. For those of you familiar with this 
settling pond at the steam plant the water was almost completely covered by a 
dense concentration of ducks. Ninety-nine percent were scaup with just one or 
two each of another 4 species. Nothing interesting but the numbers. I had 
Tree Swallows here and at Robco Lake where I also saw my first Purple Martins 
and Forster's Terns for the year in TN. At Horn Lake these same three species 
were seen again, through the rain that continued through most of the morning.

In Tunica County MS. I found only one small flock of 3000 Snow, Ross's and 
Greater White-fronted Geese, one Common Ground Dove on Fish Lake Road, 
Brewer's and Rusty Blackbirds in the wet fields along with the expected gull 
and duck species. A single Dunlin, hundreds of Snipe and thousands of 
Killdeer filled the short shorebird list. A few Pipits and Laps were ferreted 
out but Horned Larks kept me busy as there were still many small flocks but a 
lot are now paired up and displaying, nest building will start soon if not 
already.


Good Birding!!!

Jeff R. Wilson
OL' COOT / TLBA
Bartlett Tenn.


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