[TN-Bird] Lake County blizzards!
- From: Mark Greene <greenesnake@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 04:48:07 -0800 (PST)
February 5, 2009
Reelfoot Lake area
Lake & Obion Counties
The process of getting electricity back to the customers in Obion county is
winding down and our crews were moved yesterday into Lake County to assist
crews there. While driving around the south end of Reelfoot Lake I witnessed
the largest concentration of gulls that I have ever seen at Reelfoot Lake in my
20 years of birding there. It looked like a blizzard in the air and just as
many sitting on the ice where the lake was partially frozen. I didn't have time
to scope them as I was working but no telling what could be out there!
Then while we were working in the Gray's Camp area on the west side of Reelfoot
Lake I saw the most Snow Geese that I have ever seen in Tennessee. They passed
over constantly flock after flock heading north all the way until dusk. Some of
the flocks literally stretched from horizon to horizon. I estimated that some
individual flocks contained over 25000 geese! The total numbers that I
estimated that passed over us from 2pm til dusk was approximately 700,000
birds!!! I counted an astounding 387 Ross's Geese in the flocks and I'm sure I
probably missed many as they were just too far away!! Definitely an amazing
spectacle!
Good birding,
Mark Greene
Trenton, TN
Gibson County
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