Nov. 17, 2007 Lauderdale Waterfowl Refuge Lauderdale Co, Great River Road - Dyer and Lake Co, Tiptonville Landing - Reelfoot Lake Lake and Obion Co, TN I met up with Mike Todd for a survey of sites in NW TN. At Lauderdale Waterfowl Refuge, we enjoyed 5 various aged Bald Eagles scrapping over scraps plus 200+ Greater White-fronted Geese, 9 Snow and a Ross's Goose. On the way up there was a large group of Canada Geese and 3 Cackling Geese for a 5 goose day. There were over 10,000 ducks and geese covering the water and sky with my first of season Canvasback for a 16 species total at the refuge expanded to 19 at Reelfoot for the day.From there to Reelfoot we had a ton of Red-tailed Hawks with 4 dark morph, adult and immature, and an adult Krider's. We did have two Pine Siskins fly over at the refuge and I had stopped by the old Arnold Airport and saw a field that looks good for Sprague's Pipit, we did find a lot of Pipits and flushed a single bird but no enough on the silent figure as it flew out of sight. This is a site that will be walked more this year for sure. One Greater Yellowlegs and a bunch of Wilson's Snipe were all the shorebirds found at Lauderdale. On the Great River Road we had Harrier's putting up Pipits and Lapland Longspurs and our FOS Rusty Blackbirds, a male and a stunning female and Mike got a photo of her. We found 22 White Pelicans at the I-155 bridge, 76 at Tiptonville Landing and a few on the lower lake at Reelfoot but Nancy Moore reported 100's on upper blue basin. The surprise of the day was there were NO Herring Gulls seen, we even stayed past dusk?? There are 1,000's of Bonaparte's and Ring-billed plus one FRANKLIN'S which mike picked out flying by and I had a single Forester's Tern. I had picked up a single Common Loon ( we had 2 more from the east side of the lake later) and Mike asked if we ever had gotten Pacific or Red-throated before? I've had 3 or 4 Pacific and Criswell has found a couple that I know of but Red-throated fall to just 2 over the years for me. Well, I turn back to the scope and there is a RED-THROATED LOON steaming by, ask and ye shall receive. A beautiful day to be out but the drought has decimated so much great territory. Looking forward to the CBC..... Good Birding !!! 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. ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com =================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 _____________________________________________________________