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Nov. 18, 2005
Tunica Co. MS
 
I had a couple in from Vancouver, looking for a few of our wintering  
species, so we took a morning run through Tunica Co, with a brisk cold wind  
blowing. 
It was my first trip into the area since the ducks and  geese started moving 
in numbers. We had success with Western Meadowlarks,  Rusty Blackbirds, 
Short-eared Owl, Vesper Sparrows and Red-tailed Hawks in good  numbers (50+) 
with 
Rufous, Dark morph and Krider's plus Kestrel, Red-shouldered,  Cooper's, a lot 
of Harrier's, a male Merlin and a Bald Eagle. Lapland  Longspurs were scattered 
but in very small numbers.
 
Four species of geese with Snows in huge flocks moving all morning. There  
was an impressive number of ducks of 12 species with very little attention paid 
 
to scanning through them all. So the winter birding is getting up to snuff in 
 Tunica just 20 miles below Memphis.  
Good Birding  !!!

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



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