FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Sooty Terns (both states), White Ibis (AL only)

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I didn't have computer access yesterday, so this is a day late.  While 
traveling to Knoxville yesterday afternoon, I made a few strategic stops.  At 
Wheeler Dam (Lawrence/Lauderdale Co. AL), I had 3, possibly 5, adult Sooty 
Terns.  Two birds were seen flying over the channel below the dam, then a few 
minutes later, three were seen overhead flying toward Town Creek (The Point).  
I did not relocate the two, so they could have been part of the three flying 
away.  At Raccoon Creek WMA (along Hwy. 117 south of Stevenson, Jackson Co. 
AL), I had 9 immature White Ibis, 2 Little Blue Herons and a Great Egret.  At 
Nickajack Dam (Marion Co. TN) I had an adult Sooty Tern and 3 Forster's Terns.  
I tried for the Chattanooga Brown Pelican without success, and had nothing 
unusual at Chickamauga Dam, but it was very late evening by the time I got 
there.
 
Damien Simbeck
Killen, AL