[tn-bird] Re: Very Odd Coincidence
- From: "Ken Leggett" <kleggett@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 17:28:52 -0800
Mark, you may solve this problem to updating your Outlook Express to 6.0.
I assume you are using Outlook Express.
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From: <mgreene@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 8:02 AM
Subject: [tn-bird] Very Odd Coincidence
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> I'm going to try e-mailing this again to see if it comes out any better=
> .
> The last one came across with
> the text all broken up. I apologize if this one does the same, I'm not=
>
> sure what's causing it as it looks
> fine before I send it.
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> Well as Jeff mentioned we did have a very white, small raptor sitting i=
> n
> the tree line back to the east
> while we were at the observation tower at Black Bayou Refuge in Lake Co=
> unty
> on Saturday. It was
> around 6 pm when we noticed the bird and when we tried to move down the=
>
> road for a closer look the
> bird left. The bird actually left between the time that I looked at th=
> e
> bird through my binoculars after we
> had moved a 100 yards closer and the time that we set up our scopes. I=
> n
> that few seconds the bird
> disappeared so we never saw it in flight.
>
> I was going over and over in my mind Saturday night about the bird.=A0=
> I
> went through a list of "possible"
> species assuming just for the sake of assuming that the bird was not a=
> n
> albino or leucistic individual.
> Here's what I did with my possible list:
>
> The bird appeared too be pretty small to me, probably about crow-sized=
>
> which would immediately
> eliminate light raptors like Gyrfalcon and Ferruginous Hawk just on si=
> ze
> alone.=A0 I do remember some
> Mallards flying across in front of this bird and it just didn't appear=
> to
> be Red-tailed size so I believe
> we can probably rule out an abberant Red-tailed Hawk as well.=A0 Also =
> Jeff &
> I both commented while
> looking at it that the bird appeared small.=A0 The bird was obviously =
> a
> diurnal-type raptor so we can
> also rule out the light owls - Snowy and Barn.=A0 The bird did have an=
>
> "owl-like" look to the head
> although the head was obviously too narrow for an owl.=A0 What species =
> have
> an "owl-like" appearance?
> Northern Harrier of course immediately comes to mind but this bird was=
> way
> too white for even a very
> light male harrier which would show a gray look to the head and some
> darker feathering on the upper
> breast.=A0 The next candidates would be the kites of which we can elimi=
> nate
> Mississippi right off the bat
> as it is gray and not white, especially on the breast.=A0 Swallow-tail=
> ed
> Kite is quite a bit larger and has that
> long forked black tail.=A0 It's also less "owl-like" in appearance.=A0=
> That
> leaves White-tailed Kite.=A0 It's about
> the right size, is somewhat "owl-like" in appearance, and is completel=
> y
> white on the front side (and we
> never saw the back of the bird).=A0 I could not rule out this species =
> no
> matter what scenario I came up with.
>
> Now here's the really interesting part.=A0 Last night I received a cal=
> l from
> a friend of mine I used to work with
> and he told me that his wife and he were at Reelfoot yesterday (Sunday=
> )
> and that they had a really
> interesting bird that they wanted to ask me about.=A0 He says they saw=
> it at
> Black Bayou and when they first
> saw it the bird was hover-hunting.=A0 They watched it for a few second=
> s
> before it landed in a small tree.
> After it landed he said they noticed that the bird had black shoulders=
> , a
> gray back, a white front, and a
> white tail.=A0 He said after a couple of minutes that the bird flew up,=
>
> circled a couple of times and then flew
> off to the southeast towards the treeline.=A0 They were at the observa=
> tion
> platform when they saw the bird.
> He said it was somewhere around 1 pm yestersay afternoon.=A0 They are =
> fairly
> new birders but they're
> very observant.=A0 He asked me was a White-tailed Kite possible up the=
> re and
> I told him that there was
> one seen in that exact spot last year in May.=A0 He's convinced that's=
> what
> he saw and I told him that from
> the description that he gave me that's what he described.=A0 How's tha=
> t for
> an odd coincidence?
>
> Good birding,
>
> Mark Greene
> Trenton, TN=
>
>
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