Feb. 1-3, 2004 Reelfoot Area President's Island and TVA Lake Memphis, TN The last cold fronts to pass through and put so many birds at Pace Point did the same BIG TIME in the Reelfoot area. I saw better than 100,000 geese up there Saturday afternoon and twice that many ducks along the levee from Dyer to Lake Co. The gull roost is too far out in the lake to do any good but it is still the largest concentration and most have been there since the Christmas Count. Few Bonaparte's were seen in the throng. I did photograph a very small, very dark Canada Goose that was by its self in a flock of 2000 Snow and Blues with 20 Ross's and 3 Greater White-fronted Geese. It did not have the pale upper chest of Richardson's and was way smaller than Snow and looked even smaller than one Ross's that walked in front of it. If it is not a minima than at least a cackling type. This afternoon after looking at a job uptown, I went to President's Island and looked through the doves again, finding a coffee colored Mourning Dove, a color variant that I seen very rarely. I posted it and a few more dove shots on the Mystery Dove Page at: http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/eucdmodo At TVA, as I looked through the huge number of Lesser and Greater Scaup, I thought I had an Eurasian Wigeon but instead it turned into my first leucistic Lesser Scaup. Another species and another female. Evidently this gene resides only in the females. I'll post some shots of this beauty along with the Gadwall soon. Good Birding!!! Jeff R. Wilson OL'COOT / TLBA Bartlett, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- 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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================