[TN-Bird] Ferruginous Hawk - No Show -
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
- To: missbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, albirds@xxxxxxxxxxx, ARBIRD-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 07:52:21 EST
January 9, 2005
Tunica Co. MS
I met Mark Greene and Mike Todd in Memphis as Mark needed the Ferruginous
for MS and Mike wanted to try for some better photos. We spent extended stints
in the area where the bird has been hunting and perching, staying late in the
day, to see if it would come to roost, but no luck. This does not mean the
bird has left but it may have changed its feeding location. If you are in the
area please post, even if you are unsuccessful.
We ran into Phillip Casteel and Mary Zimmerman from Nashville, and
Mississippi's, Q. B. Gray and Wayne Patterson, they were also checking the
area. Q.B.
and Wayne did not find the bird and were with us at the dusk watch. We don't
know if the Nashville birders saw the bird or not. We did enjoy a lot of Laps
up close and went over to the Harrier Roost at dusk where we had 20 plus
going to bed and there enjoyed 5 Short-eared Owls going to work with minimum
barking and little tarrying around the area.
We made many wide searches through the county and enjoyed well over 100
Red-tailed Hawks, 51 were counted from one view point, 11 in one tree and 9 in
another. The one with 11 is the small tree that I've seen 13 in before and we
had 8 in a couple of weeks ago. It has consistently held multiple Red-tailed
Hawks over the years and this area of catfish ponds, always has big
concentrations of these Wind Masters.
In this group alone, we had 1 light morph Harlan's (big treat) and 1 dark
Harlan's (the dark bird sported a beautiful white necklace) 3 Krider's, plus
light morph Western and the expected Eastern Red-tails. Totals for the day 3
Harlan's, the dark bird off Arkabutla Road has returned for the 3rd year and it
is solid dark with just a mottled gray tail, 5 adult Krider's one put on a
dazzling show, soaring slowly in the sun and flashing like a beacon, we lost
count of the Western and Eastern types. At any point in the day, you could
scan the trees around you and come up with multiple Red-tailed Hawks.
We also had, 50+ Sandhill Cranes, 16+ Western Meadowlarks, their numbers
seem to be down this year but we did have 11 in one group, 12 Vesper Sparrows
in
3 locations, 4 Cooper's Hawks, 2 Bald Eagles, big numbers of Kestrels and
Loggerhead Shrike's, 5 Cackling Geese, hundreds of Ross's in 17 species of
waterfowl. There was a spectacular air show put on by the Snow and Greater
White-fronted Geese, as all day they streamed across the sky, dropped in like
snow
storms and flushed back into the sky with great rushes of air due to hungry
Eagles or coyotes. We did not spend much time with the horde of gulls spread
all over the county, that we saved for another day.
Good Birding!!!
Jeff R. Wilson
OL'COOT / TLBA
Bartlett, TN
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