DEC 22, 2007 TVA, Coro and Robco Lakes Shelby Co. TN Tunica Co. MS At TVA Lake there are now two blissfully sleeping Black Scoters although they chose to sleep widely separated in the flock. One is the adult female that has been around for a while and the other is an immature bird being much browner with a light belly. There were 57 Greater Scaup counted in the reduced scaup numbers as most of the birds were in McKellar Lake stuffing themselves before the front roars through. The White-winged Scoter continues to dive at Coro Lake and the leucistic female Lesser Scaup hides conspicuously among the thousands of ducks at Robco Lake. Six Horned Grebe have arrived on the latest front, a bird we don't get very often down there. In Tunica Co, MS, the gull numbers were down this afternoon but they stop hauling trash into the dump at noon. Nothing special detected in the flocks. Two immature Rough-legged Hawks still hunt over the original field off Buck Lake Road, but I relocated the adult dark morph that was photographed on Nov. 18. It was hunting in a field off of Arkabutla Dam Road and another immature light morph Rough-legged Hawk was using the same field. That accounts for 4 of the 5 Rough-legged seen in the area recently. Twenty-two Sandhill Cranes were feeding about a half mile away. Good Birding !!! Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA 6300 Memphis-Arlington Road Bartlett, TN 38135 http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/ What is this feathered thing that lifts my heart to the heavens. **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) =================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 _____________________________________________________________