[TN-Bird] Paris Landing to Reelfoot
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- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:01:45 -0400 (EDT)
Oct. 30, 2011
Paris Landing-Britton Ford
Reelfoot Lake - Great River Road
The early morning light at Paris Landing did not lend itself to much IDing
of the small group of gulls on the sand spit, except for the Herring and
Ring-bills. Fortunately an immature Bald Eagle roused the bunch and from the
far side of the island out popped 2 FRANKLIN'S and a Bonaparte's Gull. Far
more gulls were using the upper end of Eagle Creek with the same make up
of Herring, Ring-bill and Bonaparte's plus 27 Forster's Terns.
Most of the Common Loons seen were in Eagle Creek as the wind was keeping
most of the waters too choppy for viewing. Of the 51 Common Loons there, 42
were at the mouth and the Big Sandy reach, Port Road held 4 and Trailer
Road 9, Antioch and the access at Beach Road only 2 each, again choppy water
made for poor viewing. At Antioch, another SURF SCOTER was in with a small
group of mixed divers.
Britton Ford held ziltch except for a lot of White Pelicans and
Cormorants, no geese except Canada. Total duck count, 23 Ruddy, 9 Gadwall, 6
Ring-neck......Time to go to Reelfoot.
Reelfoot Lake was also way too choppy and the water level is dropping
exposing more and more stumps. Most of the ducks are in the eastern part of
the
lake over the deepest pocket mostly scaup and Ruddies. In the small mix of
gulls there was a juvenile plumaged FRANKLIN'S GULL. Out on the lower lake
a few hundred Ring-bill, 2 adult Herring and 5 Forster's Terns, white
mounds of swimming and sleeping White Pelicans.
Tiptonville Landing sandbar; 21 Ring-bill Gulls and a few Tree Swallows
playing in the wind but all were out done by a pair of adult Bald Eagles
clasping talons and doing a magnificent swirling, doe-c-doe turn before
parting
above the muddy waters.
At mile marker 19 on the Great River Road in Dyer Co, 6 AVOCET were
photographed sleeping and a mile north of I-155, 7 Killdeer, 51 Dunlin, 6
Least
Sandpipers and a long study of a VERY LATE SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, the only
later Semi I've had was an injured bird that stayed a couple of weeks into
November at Everette Lake, also in Dyer Co. This bird should be well out of
the US by now but looked perfectly healthy and actively feeding.
Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Rd.
Bartlett, TN. 38135_http://WWW.pbase.com/ol_coot/_
(http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/)
What is this feathered thing that lifts my heart to the heavens.
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