[TN-Bird] Re: Reelfoor Lake area - Little Gull, etc.
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:43:21 -0600
11/24/09
Lake Co
As Mark said, I was up at Reelfoot part of the day as well, with much the
same luck. Terrible conditions all day, with a steady rain developing later
in the afternoon. I had planned to stay to watch the gull roost form, but
something came up that prevented that. I also had very brief and distant
looks at an adult Little Gull later in the day, out from the same location
Jeff had seen it. No sign of the Clark's Grebe, but that doesn't mean much
today I don't think. A few Horned Grebes, Pelicans, etc. and finally able to
pick out a single loon.
I spent a little time up near Black Bayou, and had a lot of gulls and
blackbirds working over a field that was being plowed. Nothing but
Ring-billed and Bonaparte's among the gulls though. The blackbirds were
mostly Cowbirds, but a conservative 200 Brewer's were in smallish groups
around the perimeter of the Cowbirds; only a handful of Rusties. Got a few
photos of the Brewer's I will post later. Nothing much else to note. A few
flyover Lapland Longspurs.
Good Birding!!
Mike Todd
McKenzie, TN
birder1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.pbase.com/mctodd
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Greene" <greenesnake@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 4:28 PM
Subject: [TN-Bird] Reelfoor Lake area - Little Gull, etc.
> 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
>
>
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