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Nov. 10, 2005
Mississippi River
Shelby Co, TN
 
Today, I took a lunch break at the river and saw small groups or waterfowl  
heading south the easy way, floatin' down the river. A couple of weeks ago,  I 
had a single Blue Snow Goose fly by and last Saturday, I had a single  Snow 
flyby but it looked extremely short necked and could have been a Ross's. On  
Sunday things were a bit better with 3 groups of mixed Snows totaling 600  plus 
birds and a small group of very vocal White-fronted were seen scooting  south, 
my first real goose migration of the season.
 
Today there was nothing much flying but I did see the following on the  
river; 1 adult Common Loon, 3 Horned Grebe, 2 Pied-billed Grebe, 2 Mallard, 6  
Gadwall, 2 Pintail, 7 Shoveler, 4 Ring-necked, 9 Lesser Scaup, 17 Ruddy Duck 
and  
74 American Coot. 
 
It will be interesting to see what has come in with this front passage.  
After my fly-over Pomarine Jaeger at Ensley Bottoms, there were Pomarine found  
from Colorado to Georgia and points in between. Again when a good bird  shows 
up 
somewhere get out and look, there are usually more, "rare  birds" than 
birders out looking.     
Good Birding  !!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6298 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135



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