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As an aside to Mike's correction.....
Just a week before I found the Ivory Gull at Pickwick Dam (today I believe is 
the 8th anniversary of that event that rocked my world) another Ivory Gull 
was found on the beach at San Diego, Cal. which is about 170 miles south of 
Pickwick Dam. Both of these birds were way south of any other US sightings at 
the 
time. The San Diego bird was a one afternoon wonder and people rushed to see 
it even into the night carrying flashlights but it was not found the next day.

As one of the viewers of the California bird wrote to me as we exchanged 
details on the sightings, " it's one thing to find the bird along a coast line 
but 
to see it in the southern midsection of the US is truly mind boggling."

One of the birders that missed the California bird flew to see our bird which 
was viewed by folks from over 28 states.

One of many memorable things that come to my mind about the event, was Red 
and Louise Gambill flying in from Texas as a front was moving through with 
heavy 
rain. They got there after dark, wondering if the bird would move on the 
front as it had been there already a week. Rather than taking a chance that it 
would move, I told them "lets go."  Needless to say they looked at me like I 
was 
crazy but.......I had put the bird to roost that night. We parked and hurried 
out of the pouring rain and under the bridge at 8:30 that night. We had scope 
views of the bird through the rain, lighted by the lights on the locks. Every 
detail was seen as the bird would get up, shake off and lay back down.

A memorable bird and one of the great finds I've been blessed with over the 
years.

Good Birding!!!

Jeff R. Wilson
OL'COOT / TLBA
Bartlett, TN


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