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["Rick Knight" <RKnight@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,
One minor clarification on the neck-banded Snow Geese.
Nunavut is a territory, not province, of Canada.

Thanks for sharing the information.  Banding recoveries (or, in this
case, resightings) are always exciting. 

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Rick Knight
Johnson City, TN
rknight@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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> From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
> To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [tn-bird] Saturday in SW-TN.& Tunica Co. MS
> Date: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 2:11 AM
> 
> 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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