[TN-Bird] Grebe - Windbirds-Gulls TN/MS
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:08:20 -0400 (EDT)
March 13, 2011
Shelby Co. TN
DeSoto-Tunica Co. MS
My first of season Cliff Swallows have returned to 2 locations, now
looking for Banks. At TVA Lake, the numbers are dwindling and Lucy the
leucistic
Lesser Scaup has gone back to Robco Lake. In the fields west of the "Pits",
8 Golden-Plovers paced the stubble.
The RED-NECKED GREBE is still residing at Robco Lake, but its company of
ducks, cormorants, grebes and gulls has now been reduced to countable levels.
In DeSoto Co, MS, 2 groups of American Golden-Plovers were located with 67
and 102 counted on 2 passes. Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs studdied the
scattered puddles along with growing numbers of Wilson's Snipe.
At the Tunica Co. dump, only 1-2,000 Ring-bills ( no dumping on Sundays)
with apparently the same 1st year Lesser Black-backed plus 1-3rd year, 1-2nd
year and 6 motley 1st year Herring Gulls. Over 100 Wilson's Snipe in a wet
area between Kirby and Buck Island Roads were keeping company with 3
Pectoral and 3 Least Sandpipers plus another flock of 50 plus Golden-Plovers
were a fly-by.
Around the Hot Thornton and Little Texas ponds were numerous Blue-winged
Teal along with 4 species of geese and 11 species of ducks. Two fields in
the area produced the mother load with Killdeer, 321 Golden-Plovers, 2
Black-necked Stilts, 43 Greater Yellowlegs, 119 Lesser Yellowlegs, 1 Spotted
Sandpiper, 75+ Least Sandpipers, 95 Pectoral Sandpipers, 9 Long-billed
Dowitchers and 188 Wilson's Snipe.
On Arkabutla Lake, a flotilla of 1,500/2,000 White Pelicans had the
company of 6 Ring-billed Gulls, 2 young Herring, 2 Bonaparte's and 2 Forster's
Terns plus a few waterfowl.
Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN 38135
http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/
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