Chatters, It is always nice to know where our visitors come from; I recently received the following on three neck banded Snow Geese that I had found here along the Mississippi. Searching the coordinates I found two of the birds (one Snow and One Blue) were banded above the Arctic Circle in the Canadian Province of Nunavut. They caught in Foxe Basin near Prince Charles Island some 2500 miles to our north. Another Snow was banded just a few miles from Churchill in Manitoba approximately 1500 miles to the north. On Saturday (March 2), I birdied southwest TN and north Mississippi. I searched for a Red-necked Grebe reported from the north end of Horn Lake (Lakeview) in Mississippi just at the Tennessee line, without luck. I did spent a great deal of time scanning and photographing a huge flock of mixed scaup on TVA Lake in Ensley Bottoms. For those of you familiar with this settling pond at the steam plant the water was almost completely covered by a dense concentration of ducks. Ninety-nine percent were scaup with just one or two each of another 4 species. Nothing interesting but the numbers. I had Tree Swallows here and at Robco Lake where I also saw my first Purple Martins and Forster's Terns for the year in TN. At Horn Lake these same three species were seen again, through the rain that continued through most of the morning. In Tunica County MS. I found only one small flock of 3000 Snow, Ross's and Greater White-fronted Geese, one Common Ground Dove on Fish Lake Road, Brewer's and Rusty Blackbirds in the wet fields along with the expected gull and duck species. A single Dunlin, hundreds of Snipe and thousands of Killdeer filled the short shorebird list. A few Pipits and Laps were ferreted out but Horned Larks kept me busy as there were still many small flocks but a lot are now paired up and displaying, nest building will start soon if not already. Good Birding!!! Jeff R. Wilson OL' COOT / TLBA Bartlett Tenn. =================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. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net Owner: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx (423) 764-3958 =========================================================