[TN-Bird] Pickwick area 8/30/05

From: <birder1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:00:42 -0500

8/30/05
Pickwick Lake area/ Hardin Co.
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

The goodies have already been posted, and I'll let Jeff fill in more on the details. Just thought I'd put out a quick post and a link to a few photos from yesterday (better photos will likely be following from Jeff and others).

My plan was to meet Jeff and Joe Guinn at Pickwick about 07:00. The weather actually wasn't too bad at that time, just a drizzly rain. I stopped on the over to look at a barrow pit just west of the Tennessee River, off of Highway 64. This pit was full of Mallards and Canada Geese, as well as shorebirds. Highlights here were 3 American Avocets, and singles of Black-bellied Plover, Sanderling, and Short-billed Dowitcher. As I was leaving here I got the call from Jeff asking where I was, and that I should be where he is (with the Black Skimmer; didn't take long to get there).

As the day went on, the Skimmer was just the 1st of many highlights. In the area there were at least 50 Laughing Gulls, 3 Sooty Terns, hundreds of Black Terns, 2 Storm-Petrels (one definitely a Band-rumped), Magnificent Frigatebird, Long-tailed Jaeger (found by Jon Dunn and Brainard Palmer-Ball), a interesting Skua/Jaeger that is either a massive Pomarine or only the 2nd interior record of a Catharacta Skua, American Avocets and Black-necked Stilts on the pilings with the skimmer and gulls, and small flights of Ruddy Turnstones and Sanderlings that were working the Dam area.

Several birders were able to enjoy most of the these birds, thought the very high winds made it a real challenge to just observe, much less photograph them.

I have posted 4 bad shots of a Band-rumped Storm-Petrel, Black Skimmer, Magnificent Frigatebird, and the Pomarine Jaeger/Skua. The link is as follows: http://www.pbase.com/mctodd/hurrican_katrina_birds

Good birding!!

Mike Todd
McKenzie, TN
Carroll Co.
birder1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.pbase.com/mctodd

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