I made a few quick stops at a couple of winter hotspots yesterday. Here are the highlights... November 20, 2014Crockett & Lauderdale Counties Pond Creek Bottoms, Old Mound Road, Crockett County: Gadwall - 8 Mallard - 300 Northern Shoveler - 30 Northern Pintail - 12 Green-winged Teal - 20 Killdeer - 25 Wilson's Snipe - 250, Snipe were everywhere in this wet field - this is a conservative count of the birds that I could actually see. I'm sure that there were many that I couldn't see! The next stop was at the Lauderdale Waterfowl Refuge at Halls in Lauderdale County: Greater White-fronted Goose - 3,000 Snow Goose - 10,000 Ross's Goose - 50 Gadwall - 50 American Wigeon - 12 Mallard - 7,500 Northern Shoveler - 200 Northern Pintail - 150 Green-winged Teal - 2,,500 Ruddy Duck - 1 Great Blue Heron - 1 Northern Harrier - 1 Bald Eagle - 1 Red-tailed Hawk - 7 American Coot - 10 Killdeer - 100 Ring-billed Gull - 5 Good birding, Mark GreeneTrenton, TNGibson County