[TN-Bird] TVA-Robco Lakes and Tunica Co.

Feb. 27-28, 2009
TVA and Robco Lakes
Shelby Co. TN
Tunica Co. MS
 
A noon time trip, to TVA Lake on Friday, yielded lots of Lesser and Greater  
Scaup plus a snazzy female LONG-TAILED DUCK, also the leucistic Lesser Scaup 
has  returned for her 5th year and today all of the above were present again 
just  after noon. Robco Lake has been vacated by the huge scaup flocks and 
today 
there  were less than 2 dozen ducks on the lake but one was a fancy male 
Red-breasted  Merganser.
 
Last week on a trip down to Tunica Co. in the area around the dump, I  
located a nice array of gulls including Bonaparte's, thousands of Ring-bills,  
Herring and bonus birds such as 2 CALIFORNIA GULLS (1 second year and 1  
molting 
adult) a Laughing, a Franklin's and a first year THAYER'S. Friday a  quick trip 
down there produced one of the most interesting, all dark gull that  I'm still 
trying to nail down. Today, the Laughing and Thayer's were located but  the 
weather pretty much shut viewing down so I'll be back tomorrow.
 
Last week I also located 2 SANDERLING near the gulls, my first for February  
this far north. A really funny event was watching 3 Ring-billed Gulls MOON  
WALKING. It took me a while to figure out what was going on in the middle of 
the 
 tightly packed flock. It seems the ice they were standing on had broken 
loose,  was quickly floating in a current and these 3 gulls were just trying to 
stay in  place, walking like crazy and slowly going backward. You just never 
know what  you are going to see........just be there or you will miss it.  
Good Birding  !!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
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Bartlett, TN  38135
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