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["bennetts" <bennetts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Melissa,

Since you know about the "bootheel" of Missouri, I have to ask if you know
which neighboring state as an area known as "Little Egypt".  Hint, I grew up
there.

BTW:  Little Egypt is a good place for birds too.

Mark & TG Bennett
Russellville, KY
Logan County
bennetts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sid Easley" <Sid.Easley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 8:02 PM
Subject: [birdky] bky " Bootheel Birds"


>
>
>       For those of you who live in W. Kentucky, the "bootheel of Missouri"
> is not a foreign word.  It signifies Mississippi Delta, poor folks,
cotton,
> and unbearable dry, hot summer days. However, there are some
> positives.   Traveling from  Jonesboro, Arkansas to Murray, Ky. yesterday
> my peripheral vision noted egrets. This is at the Pierce Catfish
> Farms  Dyesburg, Tn exit going north on I-55.  I was able to access the
> farm on a side road, whereupon I saw a flight of Black-neck Stilts land on
> the edge of the ponds. They numbered 14 along with at least that many
Snowy
> Egrets plus 25 Least Terns, 3 Black Terns, Spotted Sandpipers, and G.
> Egrets.  An employee told me that the Great Blues were the nemesis of the
> catfish population.  He said the other birds were eating "green
> catapillars" and "snails" at the water's edge.
>       It is amazing that these birds have adjusted to the noise and
> pollution of the highway plus short lived food sources.   Just two weeks
> ago I observed a plethora of shorebirds on a drained catfish pond in Green
> County Arkansas. One week later the pond was full, and no birds present.
>       I know this is not Kentucky birds, but when you live in Murray, it
is
> closer than other parts of Ky.
>
> Melissa Easley
> Murray, Ky.
>
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