[TN-Bird] Milestone in Arkansas

From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ARBIRD-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 09:16:28 EST
A milestone was reached in Arkansas near Wapanocca NWR on Thursday morning. 
Mike Resch from Massachusetts was in the area on a quest to add to his list of 
species in Ark and a birding milestone in Total Ticks. Mike and many others 
keep a list for every state in the US and a list of Total Ticks for the US. 
Well, a flock of Lapland Longspurs boosted his number to an even 10,000 ticks. 
An 
impressive total for a working man that works in birds on business trips.
I get a lot of Total Tickers through Memphis, as you can bird MS-AR-TN on 
just a short trip and there are excellent areas just across the state line in 
every direction to boost your numbers.

Mike recounted to me that his 9,500 tick also came in Arkansas in 2000 when 
he said he had his best birding adventure ever; he got a Sora for number 9500 
and then Yellow and Black Rails in quick succession watching the rice combines. 
As you remember, for about a week that year we tallied an astounding number 
of Virginia, Sora, Yellow and Black Rails in an unbelievably small area. The 
phenomena has not repeated itself but we still search every year for that magic 
combination of habitat, timing of harvest and birds.

Congrats to Mike and Arkansas.......

Good Birding!!!

Jeff R. Wilson
OL'COOT / TLBA
Bartlett, TN


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