[TN-Bird] Scoters and Dark Rough-legged Hawk

DEC 22, 2007
TVA, Coro and Robco  Lakes
Shelby Co. TN
Tunica Co. MS
 
At TVA Lake there are now two blissfully sleeping Black Scoters  although 
they chose to sleep widely separated in the flock. One is the adult  female 
that 
has been around for a while and the other is an immature bird being  much 
browner with a light belly. There were 57 Greater Scaup counted in the  reduced 
scaup numbers as most of the birds were in McKellar Lake stuffing  themselves 
before the front roars through. The White-winged Scoter continues to  dive at 
Coro Lake and the leucistic female Lesser Scaup hides conspicuously  among the 
thousands of ducks at Robco Lake. Six Horned Grebe have arrived on the  latest 
front, a bird we don't get very often down there.
 
In Tunica Co, MS, the gull numbers were down this afternoon but they stop  
hauling trash into the dump at noon. Nothing special detected in the  flocks. 
Two immature Rough-legged Hawks still hunt over  the original field off Buck 
Lake Road, but I relocated the adult dark morph  that was photographed on Nov. 
18. It was hunting in a field off of  Arkabutla Dam Road and another immature 
light morph Rough-legged Hawk was  using the same field. That accounts for 4 of 
the 5 Rough-legged seen in the area  recently. Twenty-two Sandhill Cranes were 
feeding about a half mile away.  
Good Birding  !!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135
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What is this feathered thing that  lifts my heart to the heavens.




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