Here's only one sixth of our entire CBC here in Memphis. Location: CBC Memphis Tn, Ensley Bottoms area, Shelby County Observation date: 12/17/06, 0720am-1pm Notes: CBC Memphis Tn, Ensley Bottoms area. Virginia Reynolds and Jay Walko. Weather Partly cloudy, 60-70 degrees slight breeze late. Huge float of ducks has gotten even bigger than last week at the TVA Ponds, sm pond had a good population also. Scaup lsr were the main body of the bunch. DC Cormarants seen in good numbers on the back side of the big pond, on some fallen timber along the Ms Rvr and a small flock that flew over among others. Wooded Levee above the big pond at the pits yielded alot of woodland birds. Number of species: 62 Snow Goose 312 Canada Goose 57 Gadwall 91 Mallard 77 Northern Shoveler 10 Canvasback 3 Redhead 2 Ring-necked Duck 19 Lesser Scaup 1075 Bufflehead 2 Common Goldeneye 1 Hooded Merganser 74 Pied-billed Grebe 4 Double-crested Cormorant 82 Great Blue Heron 28 Turkey Vulture 1 Northern Harrier 2 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 23 American Kestrel 9 American Coot 77 Killdeer 15 Least Sandpiper 83 Ring-billed Gull 55 Mourning Dove 35 Barred Owl 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 11 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2 Downy Woodpecker 6 Northern Flicker 7 Pileated Woodpecker 6 Blue Jay 4 Carolina Chickadee 4 Tufted Titmouse 3 Brown Creeper 2 Carolina Wren 27 Winter Wren 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Eastern Bluebird 10 American Robin 5 Northern Mockingbird 12 European Starling 250 American Pipit 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 41 Field Sparrow 2 Savannah Sparrow 3 Fox Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 33 Swamp Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 11 White-crowned Sparrow 24 Dark-eyed Junco 11 Northern Cardinal 31 Red-winged Blackbird 110 Eastern Meadowlark 5 Rusty Blackbird 30 Common Grackle 325 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 American Goldfinch 2 House Sparrow 1 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://www.ebird.org <http://www.ebird.org/> ) =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________