Reelfoot Lake area Lake & Obion Counties November 24, 2009 I spent a couple of hours around Reelfoot Lake this morning and early afternoon. It was very windy which made viewing conditions while scoping the lake much less than desirable! I was finally able to find one adult LITTLE GULL all the way across the lake while I was scoping from the TWRA boat ramp area just west of Samburg. I was scoping a raft of diving ducks (scaup, Ring-necks, Ruddies) when a small gull with dark underwings flew through the background of my scope. It was with 25 or so Bonaparte's Gulls. There are still a few Am. White Pelicans on the lake and I had one group of 40 soaring up over the trees north of Samburg. Cormorants, coots, and grebes (mostly Pied-billed with a few Horned Grebes) were scattered about the lake. I did not see anything which looked like a Clark's but as I said conditions were not favorable so that bird could easily still be around. I did have one Common Loon on the lake on the south end off of Lake Dr. Mike Todd was up there as well and I talked to him on the phone a couple of times. He had gone north to Black Bayou and was working his way back around the south end of the lake when I had to leave. Hopefully he'll have something good to report later. Good birding, Mark Greene Trenton, TN Gibson County =================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/ MAP RESOURCES Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________