Friday, January 23, 2009 Obion & Gibson County I was out and about in Obion County today and had a few birds of note, but nothing spectacular, well except the weather! What a nice day to be outside! I had 2 adult Bald Eagles soaring up high over the Obion River bottoms along Hwy 45W north of Kenton. On a private lake on Walter Whipple Road in the north part of the county I had 27 Hooded Mergansers. On Burrus Road, northwest of Union City I had 2 Fish Crows and also a single Vesper Sparrow. I had 3 Western Meadowlarks in a corn stubble field on Mt. Olive Rd. which is also northwest of Union City. Just north of Trenton in Gibson County in a pond along Hwy 45W I had 272 Canvasbacks and 12 Lesser Scaup. There have been Canvasbacks on this pond off and on all winter. They disappeared earlier in the week when the pond froze over but were back this morning. This was the most I've had at this location but I've had over 100 a couple of times. When I came back by this afternoon there was a guy on the pond in a boat fishing and there was only one scaup present. I have now named this spot Canvasback pond. Good birding, Mark Greene Trenton, TN Gibson County http://www.freewebs.com/tnbirdingbigdays/ =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ MAP RESOURCES Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________