Nov. 18, 2005 Tunica Co. MS I had a couple in from Vancouver, looking for a few of our wintering species, so we took a morning run through Tunica Co, with a brisk cold wind blowing. It was my first trip into the area since the ducks and geese started moving in numbers. We had success with Western Meadowlarks, Rusty Blackbirds, Short-eared Owl, Vesper Sparrows and Red-tailed Hawks in good numbers (50+) with Rufous, Dark morph and Krider's plus Kestrel, Red-shouldered, Cooper's, a lot of Harrier's, a male Merlin and a Bald Eagle. Lapland Longspurs were scattered but in very small numbers. Four species of geese with Snows in huge flocks moving all morning. There was an impressive number of ducks of 12 species with very little attention paid to scanning through them all. So the winter birding is getting up to snuff in Tunica just 20 miles below Memphis. Good Birding !!! Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA 6298 Memphis-Arlington Road Bartlett, TN 38135 =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the count 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 _____________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp _____________________________________________________________