FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Brown Pelican, Sooty Terns, Laughing Gull and Forster's tern in S E TN

["Kevin A. Calhoon" <kac@xxxxxxxxxx>]

An immature BROWN PELICAN was spotted by Dan Jacobson on a channel marker
bouy in the Tennessee River across from The Boat House restaraunt on
Amnicola Hwy just south of the Tennessee Aquarium in Hamilton co.  The bird
was first seen by a friend of John Henderson by boat early in the afternoon.
John relayed the message to us and Dan found the bird around 7:30 EDT.  It
disappeared a few minutes later.

I found three SOOTY TERNS and two Forster's above Chickamauga Dam around
4:30 PM.  A fourth Sooty joined the other three around 6:00PM.  A large
portion of the Chattanooga birding community had the oppurtunity to see the
terns. Another Sooty Tern was seen flying downriver by Clyde Blum around
8:00 PM near the Boat House Restaurant, this may have been a new bird or one
of the four above the dam. These are the first Hamilton co. record for the
species. These birds were all observed from the parking lot above (or on)
the dam.

I found an adult Laughing Gull on the Tennessee River above Nickajack dam in
Marion county around 9:00 AM.  The bird was seen from the parking lot above
the dam on the south side (New Hope exit off I-24 side).

Kevin Calhoon
Chattanooga, TN


 around 9:00 AM this mornining
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