[TN-Bird] Sightings Report,18 Jan 2015, Long-tailed Duck (m), TVA Lakes, Memphis, Shelby Cty

From: John Walko <walko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tn-Bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 23:28:22 -0600
Long-tailed Duck(m) still hanging out with the Scaup, all three thousand of 
them(est).
Sunday afternoon I went down to the bottoms and was surprised at the numbers of 
Scaup(Lesser & Greater) present Couldn't count the details.
 LT Duck was asleep on the mud/sand flat on far north shore sharing time with 
several Canvass Backs and the Scaup until something really disturbed the huge 
group as they all swam together from all over the lake.
 I couldn't see any raptors in the air. 
Then whoosh, 90% of the birds took flight, eventually 75% came back down, but 
the long-tailed took off with a large group of scaup and headed down into 
McKellar lake out of view. 

Next thing you know there's a Perigrine Falcon flying higher and higher over 
the lake moving northward.

Ducks were nervous nellies for the remainder of my time there.


John "Jay" Walko
Collierville, TN
www.pbase.com/jwalko




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