[TN-Bird] Surf Scoter - Coro Lake, Memphis

From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:14:49 EST
Nov. 24, 2010
MS RV, TVA Lake
Robco and Coro Lake
Shelby Co. TN
 
The stiff wind put the migrating waterfowl down. The groups of ducks,  
grebes and cormorants looked like barges stack up in the back currents and  
eddies as far as you could see up and down the river from Mud Island. The  
bobbing bodies made for difficult IDs on some but here is approximate counts:  
290+ Ring-billed Gulls in groups stacked up on the sand bars and floating and  
hunting the river, 31 Gadwall, 4 Wigeon, 9 Mallard, 28 Shoveler, 3 male 
Pintail,  19 Green-winged Teal, 2 Canvasback, 40+ Ring-necked, 116+ Lesser and 
Greater  Scaup in 2 groups that floated down and then would get up and fly 
upstream, 54+  Bufflehead, and 24 Ruddy Ducks, 6 Horned Grebe, 17 Pied-bill, 
plus 22 DC  Cormorants.
 
At TVA Lake there were; 17 Canada Geese,  2-300 Scaup about 10%  Greater, 
78 Gadwall, 12 Mallard, 1 hen Wigeon, 2 hen Pintail, 29 Shoveler (the  males 
just coming out of eclipse plumage), 12 Green-winged Teal, 28 Ring-necked,  
11 Bufflehead, 11 Hooded Merganser, 21 Ruddy Duck, 6 Pied-billed Grebe and 9 
DC  Cormorants. Ring-billed Gulls floated in and out of McKellar Lake. 
Snow,  White-fronted and a few Ross's Geese flew over in one period of about an 
 
hour.
 
At Robco Lake, the lighting was terrible in the afternoon and the bobbing  
birds made counting impossible but I added Wood Ducks, and Redheads plus 
just  across road on Coro Lake a first year SURF SCOTER that allowed poor 
photos. This  bird has and unusual head pattern. Ducks and Geese, 20 species on 
the day.  
Jeff R.  Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135
http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/
What is this feathered thing that  lifts my heart to the  heavens?





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