[TN-Bird] Glaucous G +4 species grebe - Golden Plovers - TN-MS-AR

From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, missbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ARBIRD-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:37:00 -0500 (EST)
March 8-9-10, 2011
Shelby Co. TN
DeSoto / Tunica Co. MS
Crittenden Co. AR
 
Found some nice birds while running back roads looking for  shrikes the 
past few days and I found 26 L-h Shrikes, almost all  in known locations.
 
TENN- Three Bald Eagle nests along the river in Shelby Co, are  active. At 
TVA Lake there is still a nice collection of Lesser and Greater  Scaup, 
while most of these have left Robco Lake. At TVA Lake, a 4th year Bald  Eagle 
was being chased by a pair of adamant Red-Tailed Hawks while a single  White 
Pelican dropped in to rest. A Great-horned stood on a nest during a rain  
squall sheltering youngsters.
The R-n GREBE, sleeps, preens and feeds, at Robco  Lake now for 3rd week 
and has lots of Pied-bill for company,  plus 2 Horned in the mix and now an 
EARED GREBE has shown up. Two male  Red-breasted Mergansers also present, plus 
Tree, Rough-winged and Barn Swallows,  Purple Martins and among the 
Ring-billed Gulls floated 3 Forster's  Terns.
 
MISS - Least Sandpipers, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs,  Wilson's Snipe and 
Pectoral Sandpipers were found across the muddy fields in  DeSoto and 
Tunica Cos. Near the landfill, a Ring-billed Gull sporting a  Yellow Wing tag 
was 
photographed. Another first winter GLAUCOUS GULL was seen  resting and 
feeding at the dump, along with an immature Lesser Black-backed  Gull, 1 adult 
and 5 immature Herring Gulls were also ferreted out  from among the 3-4,000 
Ring-billed present. Western Meadowlarks were  seen in 2 groups in Tunica Co. 
around the Buck Island Road area.
 
ARK - No gulls were using the Crittenden Co. landfill?  The same mix of 
shorebirds seen in MS were found scanning wet fields in AR  but I added 2 small 
groups of GOLDEN-PLOVERS plus a single DUNLIN.  Western Meadowlarks were 
found in 3 locations as these groups are growing,  preparing for the journey 
north. These ramblings produced photos of an immature  Rufous-morph Red-tail 
plus an immature Kriders Hawk near Island 40 and a  raptor that I thought 
was a Merlin, when I saw it flying low across a field but  turned out to be a 
very small male PEREGRINE when it landed. Red-shouldered were  seen mating, 
while Red-tails were found sitting tight on nests and a  Great-horned Owl 
was seen out mid-day, evidently hunting for young, near  the famous Alligator 
Bayou.  
Jeff R.  Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN   38135
http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/
What is this feathered thing  that  lifts my heart to the  heavens.


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