[TN-Bird] Seven swans a swimming, um, flying!
- From: Mark Greene <greenesnake@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:41:56 -0800 (PST)
December 18, 2006
Gibson County
I was driving north today of US Hwy 45W just north of the town of Dyer when I
saw seven swans flying due south. I turned around and followed them for a few
miles and they turned and headed due east directly over the town of Dyer
towards Keely Mill Bottom. I drove around the bottoms for several minutes
trying to relocate them but never did. I would guess that they were Tundra
Swans with all of the Trumpeters that show up over in Arkansas every year
but you never know!
I've had a very interesting week bird wise here in Gibson County. I've been
working out in the rural areas west of Dyer & Rutherford, and around the town
of Yorkville, in northern Gibson County all this week. This is largely a rural
agricultural area with lots of soybean, corn, and cotton stubble fields and
wheat fields. There are also a lot of fields in the CRP program where farmers
get paid for sowing their fields with native grasses to help control erosion.
I've had probably around 70 redtails in the area with every color morph and
type represented with the exception of Harlan's. I've had multiple Krider's,
dark morph, Western, intermediate (rufous morph), and many, many Eastern. Also
had that Rough-legged Hawk in the area last week. Also lots of Northern
Harriers around and I would suspect that some of these fields may have
Short-eared Owls but I've not had a chance to check them at dusk yet. I had a
few Loggerhead Shrikes arounf today as well.
I've also had a lot of Lapland Longspurs - flocks ranging in size from just a
few birds mixed with Horned Larks to Lap flocks of over 300 birds. I had a
field full of Killdeer todat but careful scanning yielded no other shorebird
species. I've seen some fields that looked like fairly decent LeConte's Sparrow
habitat but I've not had achance to check them out thoroughly yet.
In a small pond just north of Trenton yesterday I had 6 Canvasbacks in a mixed
group of Lesser Scaup and Ring-necked Ducks. They were not there today but
there was a male Hooded Merganser there.
Lots of interesting stuff around - should be intersting to see what we can find
on the Christmas Bird Count at Reelfoot Lake on Saturday. Hopefully the rain
will not be a total washout...
Good birding,
Mark Greene
Trenton, TN
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