FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Rough-legged Hawk in Gibson County

[magreene@xxxxxxxx]

December 7, 2006

Today while traveling west on Bells Chapel Road I passed by a large area of 
open fields of broom sedge and other tall grasses and saw several hawks soaring 
and hovering over the area.  I stopped the truck and got out with my binoculars 
and counted 10 Red-tailed Hawks, 2 Northern Harriers, and an adult light-morph 
Rough-legged Hawk.  This is the first Rough-legged Hawk that I've encountered 
this fall but it is not too far from an area where I had one in the winter of 
2004-05.

Bells Chapel Road is east of Rutherford in Gibson County runs roughly 
east-west.  It runs into Baseline Road (which runs north out of Rutherford) on 
the west end and runs into Hwy. 105 on the east end.  The area where the hawks 
were is near the jct. of Bells Chapel Rd. & Brown Rd.  On the south side of the 
road you will see a grassy area that was formerly a tree farm.  The sign for 
the tree farm is still there and it reads "Trees For America".

From there we headed north to Lake County.  We made a quick swing by to check 
on the ibis and didn't see it.  We ran into Mike Todd at Black Bayou and he had 
checked earlier and hadn't seen the ibis either.  There was a Lesser Yellowlegs 
in the flooded field to the south of where the ibis has been seen.

We didn't have time to check the gull resting areas but the lake at Champey's 
Pocket was swarming with Bonaparte's Gulls.  We again saw several flocks of 
Snow Geese flying in the distance.  The only other bird of note we saw was a 
single Am. White Pelican flying east of Hwy. 78 as we headed south back towards 
Tiptonville.

Not a bad bunch of birds for such a cold, windy day!

Good birding,

Mark Greene
Trenton, TN
Gibson County

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