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["Ken Leggett" <kcleggett@xxxxxxx>]

Nancy Moore's spotting of 2 Immature White Ibis this evening at Black Bayou 
ended a good birding weekend in this area.
Much of the water in this area is drying up fast.  We will do some aerial recon 
in the next few days to find some of the wet areas left. The river is still 
rising and will not be a good alternate for awhile. 

Of particular interest these last few days were three Forster's Terns in 
Breeding Plumage.  We had plenty of time and were able to confirm identity both 
on the ground and in the air.  We first saw them at 103 and GRR and they later 
flew and landed on poles in the deep water at mile marker 18.5 on GRR.

Glen and I waded the water just north of 79W about 1.5 miles west of the levee 
and stirred up at least 16 but probably many more Black-crowned Night Herons 
and at least one immature Yellow-crowned Night Heron.  We also had a few 
Blue-winged Teal and Wood Ducks which are probably breeding here.

Solitary Sandpipers were plentiful in the last few days with up to 29 in 
Tumbleweed on the12th.

On July 12, we had 3 Stilt Sandpipers at 103 and GRR and 2 in the Tumbleweed 
WMA along with 125 White Pelicans there.

A number of Black-necked Stilt young  have been seen--at least 13 and probably 
more survive to this point in Dyer County and an unknown number in Lake and 
Fulton Counties.

Ken Leggett
Dyersburg, TN




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