[TN-Bird] Ducky Weather - Memphis

From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:21:16 EST
Nov. 30, 2010
MS. RV.
TVA-Robco-Coro Lakes
Shelby Co. TN
 
On the Mississippi River, just as the snow flurries started, a single  
Peregrine Falcon sat on Dacus Bar looking pretty unhappy while 8 Ring-billed  
Gulls watched from the other end of the sand spit. For the past  few winters, 
1 or 2 Peregrines have patrolled this area of the  waterfront.
 
At TVA Lake, ducks kept tripping in and out of McKellar Lake and a coyote  
tipped along the edge of the water after scaring off 9 Ring-billed Gulls. 
The  coyote would walk one way sniffing and looking and then the other way 
along  the edge and a string of scaup followed his travels just a few feet off 
shore. A  watched coyote is a good coyote. I got a couple of shots of this 
parade. The  following waterfowl were counted; 518 Lesser Scaup, 88 Greater 
Scaup, 6 Hooded  Merganser, 9 Canvasback, 8 Ruddy, 16 Shoveler, 9 Gadwall, 16 
American Coots, 4  P-b Grebe and 9 Canada Geese.
 
At Coro Lake, the immature Surf Scoter was feeding away from the  
Ring-necked, Lesser Scaup, Bufflehead, Canvasback, Ruddy Ducks, Shoveler and  
Gadwall 
present. Just across the road at Robco the duck numbers continue to grow  
but the weather got too bad to see much and I could see a break in the clouds 
 just south in Mississippi. If you like shifting through gulls, the stars 
all  lined up in Tunica Co. this afternoon, where acres and acres of gulls 
were  spread out in the cut been fields and made for excellent views of SEVEN 
GULL  SPECIES!!  
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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