May 1, 2007 Lake County Phillipy Pits, etc. I spent a long time in Lake County this afternoon looking for the Ruff that Mike Todd found on Friday and refound the bird in another pool just south of the main Phillipy Pits. This is on the New Markham Levee Road just south of the jct. with Phillipy Road. It was in a pool back off of the road behind a line of trees. There is a field road going back to this area. The bird was feeding in the grass on the far edge of the water with several Lesser Yellowlegs and Pectoral Sandpipers. There was also a Black-necked Stilt in the area. At the main Phillipy Pits there was a big flock of birds that were stirred up when I arived by a Northern Narrier flying over the water. I immediately spotted 4 White-rumped Sandpipers in the flock (my first for the spring). Other species present were: Greater Yellowlegs - 5 Lesser Yellowlegs - 16 Solitary Sandpiper - 3 Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Pectoral Sandpiper - 30 Stilt Sandpiper - 11 Dunlin - 2 Least Sandpiper - 4 In a quick scan of Lower Blue Basin from Champey Pocket at Reelfoot Lake I saw no gulls, terns or ducks! Osprey nest in the Baldcypress trees south of Champey Pocket towards Keystone Pocket had an adult bird sitting on the nest. I saw two Ring-billed Gulls on the Mississippi River at Bessie Bend. On the way up I had my first Mississippi Kite for the year as I headed north out of the Nauvoo area in Dyer County on Hwy. 78 just before crossing the Obion River bridge. Good birding, Mark Greene Trenton, TN Gibson County =================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/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________