[TN-Bird] TVA-Robco Lakes and Tunica Co.

From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:44 EST

Feb. 27-28, 2009
TVA and Robco Lakes
Shelby Co. TN
Tunica Co. MS

A noon time trip, to TVA Lake on Friday, yielded lots of Lesser and Greater
Scaup plus a snazzy female LONG-TAILED DUCK, also the leucistic Lesser Scaup
has returned for her 5th year and today all of the above were present again
just after noon. Robco Lake has been vacated by the huge scaup flocks and
today
there were less than 2 dozen ducks on the lake but one was a fancy male
Red-breasted Merganser.

Last week on a trip down to Tunica Co. in the area around the dump, I
located a nice array of gulls including Bonaparte's, thousands of Ring-bills,
Herring and bonus birds such as 2 CALIFORNIA GULLS (1 second year and 1
molting
adult) a Laughing, a Franklin's and a first year THAYER'S. Friday a quick trip
down there produced one of the most interesting, all dark gull that I'm still
trying to nail down. Today, the Laughing and Thayer's were located but the
weather pretty much shut viewing down so I'll be back tomorrow.

Last week I also located 2 SANDERLING near the gulls, my first for February
this far north. A really funny event was watching 3 Ring-billed Gulls MOON
WALKING. It took me a while to figure out what was going on in the middle of
the
tightly packed flock. It seems the ice they were standing on had broken
loose, was quickly floating in a current and these 3 gulls were just trying to
stay in place, walking like crazy and slowly going backward. You just never
know what you are going to see........just be there or you will miss it.
Good Birding !!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN 38135
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