[TN-Bird] Reelfoor Lake area - Little Gull, etc.

Reelfoot Lake area
Lake & Obion Counties
November 24, 2009
 
I spent a couple of hours around Reelfoot Lake this morning and early 
afternoon. It was very windy which made viewing conditions while scoping the 
lake much less than desirable! I was finally able to find one adult LITTLE 
GULL all the way across the lake while I was scoping from the TWRA boat ramp 
area just west of Samburg. I was scoping a raft of diving ducks (scaup, 
Ring-necks, Ruddies) when a small gull with dark underwings flew through the 
background of my scope. It was with 25 or so Bonaparte's Gulls. 
 
There are still a few Am. White Pelicans on the lake and I had one group of 40 
soaring up over the trees north of Samburg. Cormorants, coots, and grebes 
(mostly Pied-billed with a few Horned Grebes) were scattered about the lake. I 
did not see anything which looked like a Clark's but as I said conditions were 
not favorable so that bird could easily still be around. I did have one Common 
Loon on the lake on the south end off of Lake Dr.
 
Mike Todd was up there as well and I talked to him on the phone a couple of 
times. He had gone north to Black Bayou and was working his way back around the 
south end of the lake when I had to leave. Hopefully he'll have something good 
to report later.
 
Good birding,
 
Mark Greene
Trenton, TN
Gibson County

      
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