[TN-Bird] Ross's Geese by the flock!

From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 07:37:19 EST
Jan. 23, 2004
Tunica Co. MS
25 miles below Memphis.


I took part of the day off to help Don McKee find a few birds for his 
Mississippi Big Year. Q.B. Gray and I took him to all the little honey holes 
and 
treated him to, Lapland Longspurs, Western Meadowlarks, Woodcocks and a few 
other 
year birds including a Merlin that has been regular 3 of the last 4 years in 
the same tree.

While we were picking through a large group of mixed geese and had come up 
with a dozen Ross's in the flock, I heard the higher pitched calls of Ross's 
geese and immediately recognized their fast wing beats. A flock of geese was 
heading our way lickety-split. I yelled at them to get on the birds as they 
circled about and eventually landed away from the large group we were scanning.

This flock contained 1 Blue and 2 white morph Snow Geese and 64 Ross's. On a 
good day of hard scanning, when the area is full of hundreds of thousands of 
Snow and Greater White-fronted Geese you can come up with from 2 to 300 Ross's. 
I've seen as high as 28 in one group off to themselves but this is the 
largest single flock I've seen. 

It seems like only yesterday that we were rushing around to find the first of 
this species here in the rice fields. 


Good Birding!!!

Jeff R. Wilson
OL'COOT / TLBA
Bartlett, TN


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