December 7, 2006 Today while traveling west on Bells Chapel Road I passed by a large area of open fields of broom sedge and other tall grasses and saw several hawks soaring and hovering over the area. I stopped the truck and got out with my binoculars and counted 10 Red-tailed Hawks, 2 Northern Harriers, and an adult light-morph Rough-legged Hawk. This is the first Rough-legged Hawk that I've encountered this fall but it is not too far from an area where I had one in the winter of 2004-05. Bells Chapel Road is east of Rutherford in Gibson County runs roughly east-west. It runs into Baseline Road (which runs north out of Rutherford) on the west end and runs into Hwy. 105 on the east end. The area where the hawks were is near the jct. of Bells Chapel Rd. & Brown Rd. On the south side of the road you will see a grassy area that was formerly a tree farm. The sign for the tree farm is still there and it reads "Trees For America". From there we headed north to Lake County. We made a quick swing by to check on the ibis and didn't see it. We ran into Mike Todd at Black Bayou and he had checked earlier and hadn't seen the ibis either. There was a Lesser Yellowlegs in the flooded field to the south of where the ibis has been seen. We didn't have time to check the gull resting areas but the lake at Champey's Pocket was swarming with Bonaparte's Gulls. We again saw several flocks of Snow Geese flying in the distance. The only other bird of note we saw was a single Am. White Pelican flying east of Hwy. 78 as we headed south back towards Tiptonville. Not a bad bunch of birds for such a cold, windy day! 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/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________