[birdky] FW: Reelfoot Lake CBC results
- From: "Palmer-Ball, Brainard (EPPC OOS KNPC)" <Brainard.Palmer-Ball@xxxxxx>
- To: "BIRDKY" <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:05:18 -0500
This summary (below) of the Reelfoot Lake CBC on the miserably rainy
Saturday comes from compiler, Mark Greene. Ken Leggett, Nancy Moore,
Gary Pogue, and myself covered the Kentucky sliver of the count area
that included the Long Point Unit. Our highlights/limited contributions
to the list from KY included a soaking wet Merlin I saw early in the AM;
at least 10 Least Sandpipers on a wet area (now that sounds weird in
that *everything* was wet!) between Stateline Road and KY 2134; and lots
of Lapland Longspurs and American Pipits. We got most of the dabblers
including nice numbers of Northern Shovelers, Gadwall, and American
Wigeon. Geese were mostly on the TN side of Long Point and the wad of
Snows on Saturday probably contained 5K or more birds with nearly that
many Greater White-fronteds around and 10s of thousands of Mallards; we
picked out a couple of Ross's but couldn't find a Cackling. The
waterfowl are not especially easy to see from the Long Point tower this
year because of tall vegetation in many of the management units.
bpb, Frankfort
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Greene [mailto:greenesnake@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 12:20 PM
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Reelfoot Lake CBC
The 2007 Reelfoot Lake Christmas Bird Count was conducted on Saturday,
December 15. The theme for the day was cold, rain, and wind. The
temperature range for the entire day was 38-41 F. The rain was steady
all day ranging from a light mist to a steady drizzle to moderate
downpour. It only stopped raining briefly for a few minutes late in the
day. The wind was pretty brisk all day long making the cold rain sting
against our cold faces.
Despite the weather obstacles, 12 cold & wet observers were able to dig
out 109 species for the day! This total was much better than I had
anticipated when I could hear the rain beating down against the window
before sunrise! This was however our lowest species count since we had
109 in 1998.
Total numbers for most species were down, some considerably so, but I
attribute that to the rain and wind as much as anything else.
Here are some details & highlights:
The best birds:
White-eyed Vireo (3rd count record)
Red-necked Grebe (4th count record)
Lincoln's Sparrow (7th count record)
Merlin (7th count record)
Barn Swallow (found by Mike Todd on Friday could not be relocated on
count day but a nice count week bird
nonetheless!)
Other notable species:
Ross's Goose, American White Pelican, Least Sandpiper, American
Woodcock, Barn Owl (2), Short-eared Owl (2), Red-breasted Nuthatch,
House Wren, Sedge Wren, Marsh Wren, American Pipit, American Tree
Sparrow, Lapland Longspur (1000+), and Brewer's Blackbird.
The biggest notable miss was 1 Ol' Coot who was a little under the
weather.
Other misses: Red-breasted Merganser, N. Bobwhite, Turkey Vulture (seen
count week), Cooper's Hawk (seen count week), Herring Gull, Pine
Warbler, Western Meadowlark, and Purple Finch.
Observers were: Jerry Drewry, Bob Foehring, Mark Greene, Joe Guinn, Ken
Leggett, Gail King, Nancy Moore, Brainard Palmer-Ball, Chris Sloan, Joe
Stone, Sabin Thompson, and Mike Todd.
Thanks to all the participants for another successful Reelfoot count and
for braving the elements!
I'll post all the totals for the count once I get them totaled.
Good birding,
Mark Greene
Trenton, TN
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